Performance Analysis of Reservation Media-Access Protocol with Access and Serving Queues Under Bursty Traffic in GPRS/EGPRS

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1627-1641

  Cao, Yonghuan ^a,b   Sun, Hairong R ^a,c   Trivedi, Kishor S ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b OPNET Technologies Inc   (United States)

^c MOTOROLA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Enhanced general packet radio service (EGPRS); General packet radio service (GPRS); Performance; Reservation medium access control (MAC) protocol; Slotted ALOHA; Stochastic Petri nets (SPNs)

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PETRI NETS; RADIO LINKS; STOCHASTIC PROGRAMMING; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

GENERAL PACKET RADIO SERVICE (GPRS); MEDIA-ACCESS CONTROL (MAC) PROTOCOL;

PACKET NETWORKS;

EID: 0345306794     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2003.819620     Document Type: Article

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