Contention protocol performance in wireless personal communication systems

Abstract

We examine the throughput, delay, and stability of a resource reservation system for a wireless personal communication network. The system we consider has a network of base transmitters, which simulcast information to a collection of mobile users, and a network of base receivers tuned to the same channel. The mobile users request bandwidth by contending during specified time slots. We present models that consider the combined effects of noise, co-channel interference, and other channel characteristics in computing the probability of successful packet transmission. We obtain numerical results via simulation that can help to understand issues involved in engineering a system.