A New Effective Analysis for Wireless CSMA/CA LANs Supporting Real-Time Voice and Data Services

• YUE Wuyi

  the Department of Information Science and Systems Engineering, Konan University

• MATSUMOTO Yutaka

  I. T. S., Inc.

Abstract

Wireless LANs have been used for realizing fully-distributed users in a multimedia environment that has the ability to provide real-time bursty traffic (such as voice or video) and data traffic. In this paper, we present a new realistic and detailed system model and a new effective analysis for the performance of wireless LANs which support multimedia communication with non-persistent carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) protocol. In this CSMA/CA model, a user with a packet ready to transmit initially sends some pulse signals with random intervals within a collision avoidance period before transmitting the packet to verify a clear channel. The system model consists of a finite number of users to efficiently share a common channel. Each user can be a source of both voice traffic and data traffic. The time axis is slotted, and a frame has a large number of slots and includes two parts: the collision avoidance period and the packet transmission period. A discrete-time Markov process is used to model the system operation. The number or slots in a frame can be arbitrary, dependent on the chosen lengths of the collision avoidance period and packet transmission period. Numerical results are shown in terms of channel utilization and average packet delay for different packet generation rates. They indicate that the network performance can be improved by adequate choice of ratios between the collision avoidance period and transmission period, and the pulse transmission probability.

Journal

• IEICE transactions on fundamentals of electronics, communications and computer sciences

  IEICE transactions on fundamentals of electronics, communications and computer sciences 84 (7), 1660-1669, 2001-07-01

  The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers

Keywords

• wireless LANs
• integrated voice
• data
• nonpersistent CSMA
• CA protocol
• discrete-time Markov process
• performance analysis

Details

• CRID: 1570291227426938752
• NII Article ID: 110003208984
• NII Book ID: AA10826239
• ISSN: 09168508
• Text Lang: en
• Data Source:
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