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MAC protocol and traffic scheduling for wireless ATM networks

Passas, Nikos;Merakos, Lazaros;Skyrianoglou, Dimitris;Bauchot, Frédéric;Marmigère, Gérard;Decrauzat, Stéphane

MONET, Mobile networks and applications, Volume 3, N°3, September 1998

The Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol and the underlying traffic scheduling schemes defined in the Wireless ATM Network Demonstrator (WAND) system being developed within project Magic WAND are presented. Magic WAND is investigating wireless ATM technology for customer premises networks in the framework of the Advanced Communications Technologies and Services (ACTS) programme, funded by the European Union. The MAC protocol, known as MASCARA, is a hub-based, adaptive TDMA scheme, which combines reservation- and contention-based access methods to provide multiple access efficiency and quality of service guarantees to wireless ATM terminal connections sharing a common radio channel. The traffic scheduling policies are delay oriented to meet the requirements of the various traffic classes defined by the ATM architecture. Simulation results are presented to assess the performance of the proposed protocols.

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Eurecom ref:159
Copyright: © Springer. Personal use of this material is permitted. The definitive version of this paper was published in MONET, Mobile networks and applications, Volume 3, N°3, September 1998 and is available at : http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1019137101888
Bibtex: @article{EURECOM+159, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1019137101888}, year = {1998}, month = {09}, title = {{MAC} protocol and traffic scheduling for wireless {ATM} networks}, author = {{P}assas, {N}ikos and {M}erakos, {L}azaros and {S}kyrianoglou, {D}imitris and {B}auchot, {F}r{\'e}d{\'e}ric and {M}armig{\`e}re, {G}{\'e}rard and {D}ecrauzat, {S}t{\'e}phane}, journal = {{MONET}, {M}obile networks and applications, {V}olume 3, {N}°3, {S}eptember 1998}, url = {http://www.eurecom.fr/publication/159} }