Title :
Performance evaluation of a TDMA-based randomly addressed polling protocol for wireless LANs
Author :
Nicopolitidis, P. ; Papadimitriou, G.I. ; Obaidat, M.S. ; Pomportsis, A.S.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Informatics, Aristotle Univ., Thessaloniki, Greece
Abstract :
A TDMA-based randomly addressed polling protocol (TRAP) is proposed. TRAP employs a variable-length TDMA-based contention stage with the length based on the number of active stations. Simulation results are presented that reveal the superiority of TRAP against the RAP protocol in cases of medium and high offered loads. Furthermore, the implementation of TRAP is much simpler than that of CDMA-based versions of RAP, since no extra hardware is needed for the orthogonal reception of the random addresses.
Keywords :
fading channels; land mobile radio; protocols; time division multiple access; wireless LAN; TDMA-based randomly addressed polling protocol; TRAP; active mobile stations; active stations; offered loads; orthogonal reception; variable-length TDMA-based contention stage; wireless LANs; Aggregates; Computational modeling; Computer science; Hardware; Informatics; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Wireless LAN; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2002. 9th International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7596-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICECS.2002.1046438
