Improving traffic scheduling in wireless ATM networks

Author

Passas, Nikos ; Korakis, Thanasis ; Zervas, Evangelos ; Merakos, Lazaros

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Athens Univ., Greece

fYear

1998

fDate

30 Jun-2 Jul 1998

Firstpage

429

Lastpage

435

Abstract

The medium access control (MAC) protocol and the underlying traffic scheduling mechanism for the radio interface are critical components of a wireless ATM network, aiming to provide ATM-like quality of service (QoS) guarantees over the air. A traffic scheduling algorithm for a wireless ATM customer premises network is proposed. The algorithm operates in the mobile terminals, and complements a centralized scheduling mechanism operating in the base stations, for improved performance. The proposed algorithm is delay oriented to meet the requirements of the various traffic classes defined by the ATM architecture. The system performance improvement attained by the proposed algorithm is evaluated via simulations

Keywords

access protocols; asynchronous transfer mode; land mobile radio; quality of service; radio access networks; scheduling; telecommunication traffic; MAC protocol; QoS; base stations; customer premises network; delay oriented algorithm; medium access control protocol; performance; quality of service; radio interface; system performance; traffic classes; traffic scheduling; wireless ATM networks; Access protocols; Air traffic control; Base stations; Communication system traffic control; Delay; Media Access Protocol; Quality of service; Scheduling algorithm; Telecommunication traffic; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers and Communications, 1998. ISCC '98. Proceedings. Third IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8538-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCC.1998.702560

Filename

702560