A comparative study of wireless ATM MAC protocols

Author

Cai, Jing ; Ugweje, Okechukwu C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Akron Univ., OH, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

29 June-1 July 2002

Firstpage

516

Abstract

In wireless ATM (W-ATM), the multiple access control (MAC) protocol is the main element that determines the efficiency of the system sharing the communication resources. With the proliferation of standards, it is becoming a daunting task to distinguish one protocol from another. We characterize several MAC protocols for W-ATM applications by comparing their performance as a function of different quality-of-service (QoS) parameters such as CBR, VBR, ABR and UBR traffic. Although each protocol has its own merit, it is unclear how these different protocols compare against each other on a unified basis.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; asynchronous transfer mode; code division multiple access; mobile radio; quality of service; telecommunication traffic; time division multiple access; ABR traffic; CBR traffic; CDMA; QoS; TDMA; UBR traffic; VBR traffic; communication resources; multiple access control protocol; third-generation wireless networks; wireless ATM MAC protocols; Access control; Access protocols; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bit rate; Electronic design automation and methodology; Electronic mail; Media Access Protocol; Telecommunication traffic; Virtual colonoscopy; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Circuits and Systems and West Sino Expositions, IEEE 2002 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7547-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCAS.2002.1180671

Filename

1180671