Capacity of a PRMA system, and its application to adaptive TDMA

TY - JOUR

T1 - Capacity of a PRMA system, and its application to adaptive TDMA

AU - Burr, A. G.

AU - Lo, S. W.A.

PY - 1996

Y1 - 1996

N2 - We consider the application of Packet Reservation Multiple Access (PRMA) in a cellular system, and especially its application in Adaptive TDMA (A-TDMA) systems. We outline the principle of PRMA and evaluate its capacity, using simulation and an analytical upper bound, showing that capacity improvements of between 60% and 100% may be possible compared to conventional TDMA. We consider also the effect of hangover time in the speech detector, and show that this may diminish capacity by about 10%. We then consider A-TDMA, and show that the requirements of a control protocol are fulfilled by a PRMA-like scheme, and that a modest increase in contention may result, offset by a likely improvement in the efficiency of the contention process due to the capture effect.

AB - We consider the application of Packet Reservation Multiple Access (PRMA) in a cellular system, and especially its application in Adaptive TDMA (A-TDMA) systems. We outline the principle of PRMA and evaluate its capacity, using simulation and an analytical upper bound, showing that capacity improvements of between 60% and 100% may be possible compared to conventional TDMA. We consider also the effect of hangover time in the speech detector, and show that this may diminish capacity by about 10%. We then consider A-TDMA, and show that the requirements of a control protocol are fulfilled by a PRMA-like scheme, and that a modest increase in contention may result, offset by a likely improvement in the efficiency of the contention process due to the capture effect.

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M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:30844455091

SN - 0963-3308

SP - 10/1-10/7

JO - IEE Colloquium (Digest)

JF - IEE Colloquium (Digest)

IS - 234

ER -