WINMAC: a novel transmission protocol for infostations

Author

Wu, Gang ; Chu, Churng-Wen ; Wine, Kevin ; Evans, James ; Frenkiel, Richard

Author_Institution

Commun. Res. Lab., MPT, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36342

Firstpage

1340

Abstract

Infostations is a new system concept proposed to support “many time, many where” wireless messaging services. Three basic scenarios, sit-through, walk-through, and drive-through are used to describe the user mobility in infostations. In order to handle channel access and allocation, retransmission, and adaptive transmission rate adjustment in infostations, we propose an intelligent transmission protocol called WINMAC in this paper. Especially, the design and implementation issues of WINMAC for a prototype infostation system based on a commercial radio chip set for 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN are described

Keywords

access protocols; cellular radio; channel allocation; time division multiple access; wireless LAN; 2.4 GHz; IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN; WINMAC; adaptive transmission rate adjustment; channel access; channel allocation; design; drive-through; implementation issues; infostations; intelligent transmission protocol; retransmission; sit-through; transmission protocol; user mobility; walk-through; wireless messaging services; Access protocols; Communication system control; Electronic mail; Media Access Protocol; Message service; Mobile communication; Prototypes; Radio control; Web and internet services; Wireless LAN;

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.1999.780565

Filename

780565