A MAC protocol for wireless ATM systems supporting the ATM service categories

This paper presents a new Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for broadband wireless ATM Local Area Networks. Quality of Service (QoS) is provided by the support of the different ATM service categories. The system is TDMA with Frequency Duplexing and has a centralized architecture: one Base Station (BS) controls the access to the shared medium for multiple Mobile Stations (MS) per cell. The main issues addressed concern the information exchange between BS and MSs, the frame structure, the bandwidth allocation algorithm for the uplink channel (the scheduler at the BS) and the analysis (throughput and delay) of the Splitting algorithms combined with Polling to be used in the uplink contention channel.

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