A New Air Interface Concept for Wireless Multimedia Communications beyond the 3rd Generation
Authors: Xu, Bangnan and Walke, Bernard
Department of Communication Networks (ComNets), Faculty 6, RWTH Aachen University
Contact: publications@comnets.rwth-aachen.de
In Wireless Personal Communications Vol.23 No.1, p.p. 121-135, 2002.
Publication Date: Oct, 2002
On page(s):121-135
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Abstract
This paper presents a new air interface concept for wireless multimedia communications beyond the 3rd generation. The proposed air interface uses the same physical layer as that of ETSI HiperLAN/2 and IEEE 802.11a supporting transmission rate up to 54 Mb/s to form a W-CHAMB (Wireless CHannel-oriented Ad-hoc Multihop Broadband) network. Unlike HiperLAN/2, that is based on a central control, W-CHAMB is a self-organizing network without any central control. The responsibilities of organizing and controlling of W-CHAMB are fully distributed among wireless stations themselves. A channel-oriented MAC protocol that is based on dynamic packet reservation is proposed for W-CHAMB. Energy signals (E-signals) are used to realize distributed access priorities of wireless stations, to solve the hidden station problem and to achieve a MAC level acknowledgment (ACK) for a fast ARQ. The multihop traffic performance of IEEE 802.11a and W-CHAMB is intensively evaluated stochastically based on a prototypic implementation of the protocols. The superiority of the multihop traffic performance of the W-CHAMB can be seen in comparison with that of packet-oriented IEEE 802.11a.
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@ARTICLE{XuWawpmc02,
AUTHOR = {Xu, B. and Walke, B.},
TITLE = {A New Air Interface Concept for Wireless Multimedia Communications
beyond the 3rd Generation},
JOURNAL = {Wireless Personal Communications Vol.23 No.1},
YEAR = {2002},
MONTH = {Oct},
VOLUME = {0},
PAGES = {121-135},
AFFILIATION = {Department of Communication Networks (ComNets), Faculty 6, RWTH Aachen University},
URL = {https://www.comnets.rwth-aachen.de}
}