Title :
Status sense multiple-access (S2MA) communication
Author :
Al-Naami, Rashid ; Saha, Debabrata
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., George Washington Univ., DC, USA
fDate :
6/1/1992 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A new contention-based multi-access protocol, named status sense multiple access (S2MA), is introduced. S2MA is synchronous TDMA in its framing but it possesses many features of random access. The approach of S2MA is geared towards integrating heterogeneous classes of customers over a common broadcast channel. The performance of this protocol with two classes of customers, such as voice and data, is analyzed. Unlike fixed and some moveable-boundary approaches of integrating voice and data, here no slot is wasted, except for possible collision, as long as there is a demand for the slot from either of the two classes. Therefore, the channel utilization efficiency can be very high
Keywords :
multi-access systems; protocols; channel utilization efficiency; common broadcast channel; contention-based multi-access protocol; random access; status sense multiple access; synchronous TDMA; Access protocols; Broadcasting; Data analysis; Feedback; Multiaccess communication; Performance analysis; Speech analysis; Statistics; Time division multiple access; Traffic control;
Journal_Title :
Communications, IEEE Transactions on
