Relation between transmission and throughput of slotted ALOHA local packet radio networks

Author

Zhang, Ker ; Pahlavan, Kaveh

Author_Institution

Rockwell Int., Newport Beach, CA, USA

Volume

40

Issue

3

fYear

1992

fDate

3/1/1992 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

577

Lastpage

583

Abstract

A new method for the exact calculation of the throughput of a centralized slotted ALOHA packet radio network over slow Rayleigh-fading channels is presented and the results are compared with the computer simulations. Also, upper and lower bounds on the performance are provided. The effects of capture on the throughput of the system are related to the modulation and coding technique, signal to noise ratio of the received signal, general terminal distribution in the area, and the length of the transmitted packets. The binary phase shift keying (BPSK), coherent and noncoherent binary frequency shift keying (FSK) modulations and BCH coding are considered for the exact calculations. The results of the analysis show that the maximum average throughput of the slotted Aloha packet radio network is around 60% rather than 36% predicted from the simplified analysis. In contrast with some previous reports, it is shown that the throughput of the system is not affected significantly by the use of coding or the change of packet lengths

Keywords

encoding; fading; frequency shift keying; packet switching; phase shift keying; radio networks; telecommunication channels; BCH coding; BPSK; SNR; average throughput; binary frequency shift keying; binary phase shift keying; coherent BFSK; computer simulations; lower bounds; noncoherent BFSK; packet length; performance; received signal; signal to noise ratio; slotted ALOHA packet radio network; slow Rayleigh-fading channels; terminal distribution; upper bounds; Binary phase shift keying; Computer simulation; Fading; Frequency shift keying; Modulation coding; Packet radio networks; Rayleigh channels; Signal to noise ratio; Testing; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0090-6778

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/26.135727

Filename

135727