Medium access control feedback mechanism for uplink resource management in wireless TDMA packet data systems

Author

Balachandran, Krishna ; Dravida, Subrahmanyam ; Nanda, Sanjiv ; Vitebskiy, Stanislav

Author_Institution

Lucent Technol., AT&T Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

36342

Firstpage

145

Abstract

The shared channel feedback (SCF) procedures and fields as specified in IS-136 DCCH are not well-suited for long packet data transactions and do not facilitate flexible sharing of resources among users. We describe a simple and robust packet channel feedback (PCF) mechanism for an IS-136 based TDMA packet data channel (PDCH) by identifying the minimal set of functions and fields required to manage both contention access and reserved access. The proposed scheme has fewer error conditions, unambiguous state transitions and better performance under error conditions. The PCF scheme provides considerable flexibility in assigning bandwidth to multiple users and allows the efficient management of contention, reservation and scheduling on each sub-channel without wasted slots

Keywords

Rayleigh channels; access protocols; data communication; feedback; land mobile radio; packet radio networks; radio links; telecommunication network management; time division multiple access; IS-136 DCCH; Rayleigh fading channel; active mobile identity encoding; bandwidth assignment; contention access management; contention management; error conditions; long packet data transactions; medium access control feedback mechanism; packet data channel; performance; reservation management; reserved access management; robust packet channel feedback; scheduling management; shared channel feedback; state transitions; sub-channel; uplink resource management; wireless TDMA packet data systems; Ambient intelligence; Base stations; Content management; Data systems; Delay; Feedback; Media Access Protocol; Resource management; Technology management; Time division multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 1999 IEEE 49th

Conference_Location

Houston, TX

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5565-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETEC.1999.778035

Filename

778035