Abstract
Prior work in the field of packet radio networks has often assumed a simple success-if-exclusive model of successful reception. This simple model is insufficient to model interference in large dense packet radio networks accurately. In this paper we present a model that more closely approximates communication theory and the underlying physics of radio communication. Using this model we present a decentralized channel access scheme for scalable packet radio networks that is free of packet loss due to collisions and that at each hop requires no per-packet transmissions other than the single transmission used to convey the packet to the next-hop station. We also show that with a modest fraction of the radio spectrum, pessimistic assumptions about propagation resulting in maximum-possible self-interference, and an optimistic view of future signal processing capabilities that a self-organizing packet radio network may scale to millions of stations within a metro area with raw per-station rates in the hundreds of megabits per second.
Keywords
Packet radioComputer scienceComputer networkNetwork packetUMTS Terrestrial Radio Access NetworkScalabilityRadio Link ProtocolRadio access networkRadio resource managementTelecommunicationsWireless networkWirelessBase stationMobile station
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- 1996
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 219-230
- Citations
- 131
- Access
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Timothy J. Shepard
(1996).
A channel access scheme for large dense packet radio networks.
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
, 26
(4)
, 219-230.
https://doi.org/10.1145/248157.248176
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- DOI
- 10.1145/248157.248176