Handoff effect on Packet Reservation Multiple Access (PRMA) in microcellular system

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-1-2003

Abstract

Packet reservation multiple access (PRMA) has been proposed for third-generation wireless information network by Goodman et al. The mobile initiated handoff has been proposed to disperse the burden of base station (BS) increased by small microcell radius. However, increased contentions due to handoff will affect the overall performance of PRMA, even though these frequency handoffs do not burden on BS. In this paper, we analyze the handoff effect on PRMA performance under a microcellular system, both voice-only and combined voice-and-data systems. Steady state voice-terminal model with handoff is proposed. System-equilibrium equations are derived using the proposed model. The system performance is evaluated by using a Markov analysis method in terms of packet-dropping probability, data-packet delay, and throughput. The changes of performance under handoff show the impact of handoff on PRMA.

Identifier

0141953983 (Scopus)

Publication Title

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2003.816650

ISSN

00189545

First Page

1232

Last Page

1241

Issue

5

Volume

52

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