WINMAC for Infostations

Author

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

Author_Institution

Minist. of Posts & Telecommun., Japan

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

18-22 Oct. 1999

Firstpage

1285

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. 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

Internet; cellular radio; channel allocation; electronic messaging; protocols; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN; Infostations; adaptive transmission rate adjustment; channel access; channel allocation; commercial radio chip set; drive-through scenario; intelligent transmission protocol; retransmission; sit-through scenario; user mobility; walk-through scenario; 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

Communications, 1999. APCC/OECC '99. Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on ... and Fourth Optoelectronics and Communications Conference

Conference_Location

Beijing, China

Print_ISBN

7-5635-0402-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCC.1999.820498

Filename

820498