Title :
Analysis of a wireless MAC protocol with client-server traffic
Author :
LaMaire, R.O. ; Krishna, A. ; Ahmadi, H.
Author_Institution :
IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Abstract :
An efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol for use in a single cell of a wireless local area network (LAN) is analyzed. A fixed frame structure with two periods is used, one period for making reservations using a slotted Aloha protocol and a second period for data transmission. The MAC protocol operates in a centralized manner in which a single station, the base station, accepts reservations (transmission or data requests) that are made by the remote stations, and then schedules the times in which they will transmit or receive data. Two different types of client-server traffic models, open loop and closed loop, are considered. Exact results are derived for the mean throughput and waiting times as well as for the queue length distributions. Several types of behavior are illustrated by numerical examples
Keywords :
local area networks; mobile radio systems; protocols; telecommunication traffic; telecommunications control; LAN; base station; client-server traffic; closed loop model; data transmission; fixed frame structure; mean throughput; medium access control; open loop model; queue length distributions; slotted Aloha protocol; waiting times; wireless MAC protocol; wireless local area network; Access protocols; Base stations; Communication system traffic control; Data communication; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Throughput; Traffic control; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol;
Conference_Titel :
INFOCOM '93. Proceedings.Twelfth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Networking: Foundation for the Future, IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-3580-0
DOI :
10.1109/INFCOM.1993.253333
