Providing Real-Time Service in CDMA Wireless Networks

Author: Ma Maode   Zhu Qichao  

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company

ISSN: 0929-6212

Source: Wireless Personal Communications, Vol.41, Iss.4, 2007-06, pp. : 551-562

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Abstract

Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol design plays a very important role in the design of wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a new MAC protocol to provide real-time service for a CDMA wireless network. This protocol has been designed based on the distributed queuing random access protocol for CDMA wireless networks (DQRAP/CDMA). As real-time scheduling schemes have been introduced into the protocol design, the new protocol has an ability to accommodate real-time traffic in the CDMA wireless networks. A series of simulation experiments have been carried out to evaluate the performance of the proposed protocol. The results reveal that the proposed protocol can efficiently provide real-time service to the traffic composed of time constrained messages in the CDMA wireless networks.