Performance study of SRMA multiple access protocols

In this paper we are concerned with packet broadcast networks in which users communicate with the central station. The key problem is multiple access of a shared broadcast channel. The performance of a family of SRMA (split-channel reservation multiple access) protocols for multiple access proposed by Tobagi and Kleinrock (1976) is studied. We analyse the performance of SRMA-RM (request message) and modified SRMA-RAM (request answer message) protocols in terms of the throughput and the average packet delay. Bounds on the throughput are also established for both protocols.