A medium access control scheme for TDD-CDMA cellular networks with two-hop relay architecture

Author

Li, Xue Jun ; Chong, Peter Han Joo

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore, Singapore

Volume

8

Issue

5

fYear

2009

fDate

5/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2280

Lastpage

2285

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a multihop medium access control (mMAC) scheme for time division duplexing-code division multiple access (TDD-CDMA) cellular networks with two-hop relay architecture to support packet data transmission. The proposed mMAC is based on joint CDMA/PRMA (packet reservation multiple access) protocol and it includes BCH code selection, power control and multihop relaying. Simulation results reveal that cellular networks with two-hop relay architecture with the proposed mMAC scheme can substantially provide a good performance as well as larger cell coverage as compared to conventional TDD-CDMA single-hop cellular networks.

Keywords

cellular radio; code division multiple access; packet reservation multiple access; time division multiple access; BCH code selection; TDD-CDMA cellular networks; joint CDMA-PRMA protocol; multihop medium access control scheme; multihop relaying; packet data transmission; packet reservation multiple access; power control; single-hop cellular networks; time division duplexing-code division multiple access cellular networks; two-hop relay architecture; Access protocols; Frequency conversion; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Media Access Protocol; Multiaccess communication; Radio spectrum management; Relays; Routing; Spread spectrum communication; Throughput; Multihop cellular networks; TDD-CDMA; medium access control; packet reservation multiple access;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1276

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TWC.2009.080737

Filename

4927439