Effect of mobility on PRMA

Neelesh B. Mehta, Andrea J. Goldsmith

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Abstract

PRMA, a packetized multiple access scheme for transmitting over short range radio channels, is a promising scheme to implement in a cellular system. PRMA requires little central control and allows hand-overs with minimal base station intervention. However, when mobile voice terminals move from one cell to another, they forfeit the slots reserved for them and, in addition, encounter hand-off delays leading to dropping of voice packets. The main problem is that a mobile terminal can lose more packets even after having secured a reservation. In this paper we use a path enumeration technique using signal flow graphs combined with Equilibrium Point Analysis to analyze the effect of terminal mobility on the performance of PRMA in a cellular environment.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)400-405
Number of pages6
JournalIEEE Transactions on Communications
Volume50
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2002
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Keywords

  • Equilibrium point analysis
  • Land mobile radio cellular systems
  • Mobility
  • Packet reservation multiaccess
  • Signal flow graph

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