Performance Analysis of a MAC Protocol for Broadband Wireless ATM Networks with Quality of Service Provisioning

This paper presents a Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for broadband wireless LANs based on the ATM transfer mode, together with the evaluation of its performance in terms of throughput and access delay. Important characteristics of the MAC protocol are the way information between the Mobile Stations (MSs) and the Base Station (BS) is exchanged and the algorithm used to allocate the bandwidth in order to support the service categories. A detailed analytical evaluation, both on cell level and packet level, leads to an assessment of the efficiency and the access delay of the system.

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