Medium Access Control Protocol Based on Estimation of Multimedia Traffic with an Adaptive Algorithm in CDMA Packet Communications

Yasuhiro HIRAYAMA  Hiraku OKADA  Takaya YAMAZATO  Masaaki KATAYAMA  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E85-A   No.12   pp.2868-2876
Publication Date: 2002/12/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications)
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CDMA packet communications,  multimedia traffic,  medium access control,  adaptive algorithm,  

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Summary: 
In this paper, we propose a medium access control (MAC) protocol for multimedia code division multiple access (CDMA) communications. In the proposed protocol, a base station (BS) estimates the instantaneous number of simultaneously transmitted packets in the future slots with exploiting a stochastic property of traffic. In order to carry out this estimation, we employ an adaptive algorithm. We evaluate the performance of the proposed protocol by comparing that with two different cases. One is no estimation case and the other is perfect estimation case. From these results, we clarify the advantage of the proposed MAC protocol.