A New Medium Access Protocol with Prioritization of Real-Time Traffic for Multimedia Wireless Networks

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The proposed medium access protocol deals especially with the timely-transmission of real-time packets in wireless multimedia networks where users of many types of traffic are present. It works based on Time Division Multiple Access/Time Division Duplex (TDMA/TDD) technique and fixedlength packet switching incorporating two different policies to work differently on either non-congestion or congestion periods. In the policy to deal with congestion periods the concept of urgent packet has been introduced as any packet whose transmission deadline is on the next frame. Hence, during periods of congestion users inform to the Base Station the number and average deadline of the urgent packets in their buffers through requirement messages. According to that information the system is able to distribute its resources in a more efficient way during periods of congestion making the real-time packet loss rate decrease considerably. The simulation results show a very good performance of the method in networks where different types of traffic coexist even under high traffic-load conditions. The results also show a good trade-off characteristic between the real-time access delay and the buffer occupancy of non-real time terminals during congestion periods.
社団法人電子情報通信学会の論文
2003-04-01