Supporting broadband, mobile, high-speed multimedia services based on TDMA MAC protocol

Author

Lin, Ming-Hung ; Cheng, Ray-Guang ; Wu, Chiung-Shien

Author_Institution

Comput. & Commun. Labs., Ind. Technol. Res. Inst., Hsinchu, Taiwan

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

992

Abstract

This paper proposes an architecture of the Broadband Mobile Wireless TDMA MAC (BMW T-MAC) protocol, designed and implemented by the Advanced Technology Center of Computer Communication Research Laboratories (ATC/CCL). It is modified from the GPRS standard and aimed to support voice services and IP application simultaneously. Due to the combination of GSM and Internet technology, this architecture can be easily extended as a micro-cell base station for GPRS and providing services within a local area. The proposed architecture used packet-switched technology and a TDMA multiple access scheme for supporting future high-speed, multimedia services being defined by the Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) or IMT-2000. A reference testbed is being developed to validate the effectiveness and the efficiency of the proposed BMW T-MAC

Keywords

Internet; broadband networks; cellular radio; mobile communication; multimedia communication; packet switching; time division multiple access; Broadband Mobile Wireless TDMA MAC; GPRS standard; GSM; IMT-2000; IP application; Internet; Universal Mobile Telecommunication System; high-speed multimedia services; micro-cell base station; multiple access scheme; packet switching; protocol; voice services; Application software; Base stations; Computer architecture; GSM; Ground penetrating radar; Media Access Protocol; Mobile computing; Time division multiple access; Web and internet services; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5731-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1999.814228

Filename

814228