TY - JOUR
T1 - A quantitative comparison of multiple access control protocols for wireless ATM
AU - Kwok, Yu Kwong
AU - Lau, Vincent K.N.
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received January 31, 2000; revised August 8, 2000. This work was supported by Seed Grants from HKU URC under contract numbers 10203010 and 10203413 and by Earmarked Grants from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council under contract numbers HKU 7124/99E and HKU 7024/00E. The authors are with the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong. Publisher Item Identifier S 0018-9545(01)03961-5.
PY - 2001/5
Y1 - 2001/5
N2 - The multiple access control (MAC) problem in a wireless network has intrigued researchers for years. For a broad-band wireless network such as wireless ATM, an effective MAC protocol is very much desired because efficient allocation of channel bandwidth is imperative in accommodating a large user population with satisfactory quality of service. Indeed, MAC protocols for a wireless ATM network in which user traffic requirements are highly heterogeneous (classified into CBR, VBR, and ABR), are even more intricate to design. Considerable research efforts expended in tackling the problem have resulted in a myriad of MAC protocols. While each protocol is individually shown to be effective by the respective designers, it is unclear how these different protocols compare against each other on a unified basis. In this paper, we quantitatively compare seven recently proposed TDMA-based MAC protocols for integrated wireless data and voice services. We first propose a taxonomy of TDMA-based protocols, from which we carefully select seven protocols, namely SCAMA, DTDMA/VR, DTDMA/PR, DQRUMA, DPRMA, DSA++, and PRMA/DA, such that they are devised based on rather orthogonal design philosophies. The objective of our comparison is to highlight the merits and demerits of different protocol designs.
AB - The multiple access control (MAC) problem in a wireless network has intrigued researchers for years. For a broad-band wireless network such as wireless ATM, an effective MAC protocol is very much desired because efficient allocation of channel bandwidth is imperative in accommodating a large user population with satisfactory quality of service. Indeed, MAC protocols for a wireless ATM network in which user traffic requirements are highly heterogeneous (classified into CBR, VBR, and ABR), are even more intricate to design. Considerable research efforts expended in tackling the problem have resulted in a myriad of MAC protocols. While each protocol is individually shown to be effective by the respective designers, it is unclear how these different protocols compare against each other on a unified basis. In this paper, we quantitatively compare seven recently proposed TDMA-based MAC protocols for integrated wireless data and voice services. We first propose a taxonomy of TDMA-based protocols, from which we carefully select seven protocols, namely SCAMA, DTDMA/VR, DTDMA/PR, DQRUMA, DPRMA, DSA++, and PRMA/DA, such that they are devised based on rather orthogonal design philosophies. The objective of our comparison is to highlight the merits and demerits of different protocol designs.
KW - Adaptive protocol
KW - FDD
KW - Multiple access control
KW - TDMA
KW - Wireless ATM
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U2 - 10.1109/25.933314
DO - 10.1109/25.933314
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0035328720
SN - 0018-9545
VL - 50
SP - 796
EP - 815
JO - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
JF - IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
IS - 3
ER -