分组预约多址（PRMA）的性能仿真

本文首先给出了分组预约多址（ＰＲＭＡ）的定义和基本性能，然后通过计算机仿真的方法，分析了话音统计特性对ＰＲＭＡ性能的影响。结果表明ＰＲＭＡ系统容量对话音通信过程中的平均有声期的长度变化不敏感，而对话音通信过程中话音激活因子的变化非常敏感。     

Performance evaluation of a modified PRMA protocol for joint voiceand data packet wireless networks

In this paper, a modified version of the packet reservation multiple-access (PRMA) protocol is proposed to provide spatially dispersed voice and data user terminals wireless access to a base station over a common short-range radio channel. An analytical approach is presented in order to derive system performance in terms of mean data message delay and voice packet dropping probability. A suitable permission probability design is also proposed to enhance system performance. Performance comparisons with an extension of the PRMA protocol to voice data systems previously reported in literature are shown to highlight the better behavior of this approach     

C-PRMA: a centralized packet reservation multiple access for localwireless communications

Packet-switched technology has been demonstrated as effective in cellular radio systems with short propagation delay, not only for data, but also for voice transmission. In fact, packet voice can efficiently exploit speech on-off activity to improve bandwidth utilization over time division multiple access (TDMA). Such an approach has been first suggested in the packet reservation multiple-access (PRMA) technique, an adaptation of the reservation ALOHA protocol to the cellular environment. However, being PRMA-based on a fixed frame scheme, it cannot thoroughly take advantage of the very short propagation delays encountered in microcellular systems that allow, for instance, the immediate retransmission of packets lost because of the interference noise from adjacent cells. We present the centralized PRMA, a natural enhancement of PRMA, in which the base station (BS) plays a central role in scheduling the transmissions of mobile stations (MSs). As a consequence, the transmission scheduling is very flexible and can account for the different traffic rate and delay constraints that emerge from voice and data integration. A packet retransmission policy to recover corrupted packets can be implemented and operated efficiently to provide an acceptable grade of service, even in a very noisy environment. The simulation results presented show the quantitative improvements of the centralized packet reservation multiple-access (C-PRMA) performance with respect to PRMA     

Terminal‐Assisted Hybrid MAC Protocol for Differentiated QoS Guarantee in TDMA‐Based Broadband Access Networks

This paper presents a terminal‐assisted frame‐based packet reservation multiple access (TAF‐PRMA) protocol, which optimizes random access control between heterogeneous traffic aiming at more efficient voice/data integrated services in dynamic reservation TDMA‐based broadband access networks. In order to achieve a differentiated quality‐of‐service (QoS) guarantee for individual service plus maximal system resource utilization, TAF‐PRMA independently controls the random access parameters such as the lengths of the access regions dedicated to respective service traffic and the corresponding permission probabilities, on a frame‐by‐frame basis. In addition, we have adopted a terminal‐assisted random access mechanism where the voice terminal readjusts a global permission probability from the central controller in order to handle the ‘fair access’ issue resulting from distributed queuing problems inherent in the access network. Our extensive simulation results indicate that TAF‐PRMA achieves significant improvements in terms of voice capacity, delay, and fairness over most of the existing medium access control (MAC) schemes for integrated services.     

On the capacity of packet reservation multiple access with capturein personal communication systems

A new Markovian model is developed to analyze the packet reservation multiple access (PRMA) protocol over Rician fading channels with lognormal shadowing. The packet dropping probability and the voice user capacity are defined as the performance measures. A new formula is derived to evaluate the dropping probability in the fading environment. The analytical results from our new formula show close agreement with those from computer simulations. The capture effect on the PRMA system performance is also studied. We found that, with capture, the user capacity will be improved and the service quality will degrade gracefully when the number of active users in the system increases. Using the dropping probability as the criterion, we also determine the optimal permission probability in a microcellular environment     

冲突消弱分组预约多址协议及其性能分析

本文讨论了分组预约多址接入（ＰＲＭＡ）协议的缺点,提出了一种突消弱分组预约多址接入（ＣＲ－ＰＲＭＡ）协议,理论分析和计算机仿真均表明ＣＲ－ＰＲＭＡ的性能优于ＰＲＭＡ。     

Stability evaluation and design of the PRMA joint voice data system

Packet reservation multiple access (PRMA) provides spatially dispersed voice and data terminals wireless access to a base station over a common short-range radio channel. The author presents an equilibrium point analysis of the joint voice data system. The analysis leads to two coupled nonlinear equations. By a judicious change of variables, the author calculates the equilibrium of the joint system by finding the roots of a univariate equation. The author provides expressions for voice packet dropping probability, the distribution of data packet delays and the system throughput, at equilibrium. For the joint voice data system the design problem is two dimensional. Elementary catastrophe theory leads to a bifurcation of the design space into useful and congested regions. The useful design space is further restricted by target values of the performance criteria. The study of a nominal system verifies the design methodology. Moreover, it shows that PRMA gracefully accepts low bit rate data terminals with moderate data packet delays (few hundred milliseconds), while simultaneously satisfying a 1% speech packet dropping criterion     

时分双工环境下的分组预约多址(PRMA/TDD)协议及其性能

在分析标准分组预约多址（PRMA／FDD）协议的基础上,提出了时分双工环境下的分组预约多址（PRMA／TDD）协议,理论分析和计算机仿真均表明,PRMA／TDD与PRMA／FDD的性能相近,可以较大幅度地提高系统的容量。     

Dynamic Reservation Multiple Access (DRMA): A new multiple access scheme for Personal Communication System (PCS)

To improve the spectrum efficiency of integrated voice and data services in Personal Communication System (PCS), several reservation-type multiple access schemes, such as Packet Reservation Multiple Access (PRMA), Dynamic Time Division Multiple Access (D-TDMA), Resource Auction Multiple Access (RAMA), etc., have been proposed. PRMA uses the data packet itself to make a channel reservation, and is inefficient in that each unsuccessful reservation wastes one slot. However, it does not have a fixed reservation overhead and offers shorter access delay. On the other hand, fixed reservation overhead is unavoidable in both RAMA and D-TDMA. Compared to D-TDMA and PRMA, RAMA is superior in the sense that its slot assignment is independent of the traffic load. But its implementation is difficult. With these observations, a new reservation protocol, called Dynamic Reservation Multiple Access (DRMA), is proposed in this paper. With this new protocol, the success probability of channel access is greatly improved at the expense of slightly increased system complexity. It solves the problem of inefficiency in PRMA, but without introducing the fixed reservation overhead as in D-TDMA and RAMA. In addition, it is more suited to the dynamic behavior of the integrated traffic because there is no fixed boundary between voice and data slots (which is mandatory in D-TDMA and RAMA). Our numerical results indicate that its performance is superior to the existing reservation protocols, especially in the integrated traffic scenario. Moreover, the soft capacity feature is exhibited when the traffic load increases.     

A simple distributed PRMA for MANETs

With the rapid development of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology and its applications, synchronization between terminals in mobile ad hoc environments becomes feasible at a low cost. Thus, slotted-channel-based medium access control (MAC) schemes like time division multiple access (TDMA) also become interesting for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). In this paper, we extend the classical centralized and slotted packet reservation multiple access (PRMA) scheme to a simple distributed PRMA (D-PRMA) as a MAC scheme for MANETs, with emphasis on voice application support. The major efforts of D-PRMA include 1) a simple slot reservation mechanism for voice traffic at the level of "talkspurt" without relying on any central entity and 2) a simple solution for the hidden and exposed terminal problems uniquely present in wireless ad hoc environments. The performance of D-PRMA has been investigated by analysis and computer simulations in comparison with IEEE 802.11. The results show that D-PRMA is much more suitable than IEEE 802.11 for voice application     

A new protocol for the integration of voice and data over PRMA

In packet reservation multiple access (PRMA) the receiver in the mobile terminal is required to listen continuously to monitor the acknowledgment messages broadcasted at the end of every time slot. A new scheme for the integration of voice and data based on PRMA is proposed. The voice and the data subsystems are logically separated. The total available bandwidth is divided into three regions-voice information, voice contention, and data regions. The available bandwidth is dynamically partitioned between the above three regions subject to the fulfillment of the quality of service (QoS) requirements of the voice users. The voice subsystem has been modeled as a Markov chain and an exact analytical method used to compute the voice packet dropping probability is described. A nonlinear programming problem is formulated to optimize the bandwidth allocated for the data users. Solutions to this nonlinear programming problem that are very close to optimum have been obtained heuristically. Numerical results indicate that a significant amount of data traffic can be supported without sacrificing the voice capacity of the system     

Voice and data transmissions with a PRMA-like protocol in highpropagation delay cellular systems

Future mobile communication systems will require new medium access control protocols to attain an efficient multiplexing of different traffic sources while guaranteeing their requirements on quality of service. This paper investigates the performance of a modified packet reservation multiple access (PRMA) protocol, called PRMA with hindering states (PRMA-HS), for supporting voice and data transmissions in mobile cellular systems with high propagation delays. A scenario based on low Earth orbit mobile satellite systems (LEO-MSSs) has been considered, but the analytical approach is general. We have obtained that PRMA-HS achieves a high capacity of voice sources in LEO-MSSs also in the presence of data traffic. A performance analysis has been carried out showing good agreement with simulation results. Finally, the PRMA-HS performance has been evaluated in the presence of different data traffic sources     

Integrated video and voice transmission using packet reservation multiple access

This paper proposes a new protocol for the integration of voice and video transmission over the packet reservation multiple access (PRMA) system that is a modification of reservation‐ALOHA protocol. We focus on low bit‐rate video applications like video conferencing and visual telephony for wireless communications. The ITU–T H.263 standard provides a solution to the need for low bit‐rate video compression under 64 kbytes/s. The proposed protocol assumes that each voice terminal follows a traffic pattern of talk spurts and silent gaps with fixed permission probability (p=0.3), and each video terminal has the higher permission probability (p=1) to access the available slot based on ITU–T H.263 standard. Again, we present a ‘pseudo‐reservation’ scheme to release slots reserved by video terminals according to the contents of each video transmission buffer, and the active voice terminals can temporarily access the additional slots to improve the performance without sacrificing the video capacity of the system. The packet dropping probability of the active voice terminals and bandwidth utilization of the system are superior to the original PRMA, as indicated in simulation results. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

改进的分组预约多址协议性能分析

分级预约多址（PRMA）协议已被广泛地应用于短距离无线通信系统中,它不仅适用了数据传输,同样也适用于话音传输。但由于PRMA协议的帧长是固定的,竞争的产生使部分时隙被浪费,信道容易不能更好地被提高,而且在重负荷情况下系统会发生不稳定问题。提出了一种改进的分组预约多址协议（IPRMA）。进行了理论分析和计算机仿真,由于采用排队等待方式接入时隙信道,降低了分组时,减少了分组丢弃率,从而提高了系统容量。     

Packet reservation multiple access for local wirelesscommunications

Simulation work is reported indicating that packet reservation multiple access (PRMA) allows a variety of information sources to share the same wireless access channel. Some of the sources, such as speech terminals, are classified as periodic and others, such as signaling, are classified as random. Packets from all sources contend for access to channel time slots. When a periodic information terminal succeeds in gaining access, it reserves subsequent time slots for uncontested transmission. Both computer simulations and a listening test reveal that PRMA achieves a promising combination of voice quality and bandwidth efficiency     

Block Reservation Time Division Multiple Access (BRTDMA) Protocol for a High Capacity Wireless Network

Next generation high capacity wireless networks need to support various types of traffic, including voice, video and data, each of which have different Quality of Service (QoS) requirements for successful transmission. This paper presents an advanced reservation packet access protocol BRTDMA (Block Reservation Time Division Multiple Access) that can accommodate voice and data traffic with equal efficiency in a wireless network. The proposed BRTDMA protocol has been designed to operate in a dynamic fashion by allocating resources according to the QoS criteria of voice and data traffic. Most of the existing reservation protocols offers reservation to voice traffic while data packets are transmitted using contention mode. In this paper we propose a block reservation technique to reserve transmission slots for data traffic for a short duration, which minimizes the speech packet loss and reduce the end-to-end delay for wireless data traffic. The optimum block reservation length for data traffic has been studied in a cellular mobile radio environment using a simulation model. Simulation results show that the BRTDMA protocol offers higher traffic capacity than standard PRMA protocol for integrated voice and data traffic and offers flexibility in accommodating multimedia traffic.     

Multidimensional PRMA with prioritized Bayesian broadcast-a MACstrategy for multiservice traffic over UMTS

Multidimensional packet reservation multiple access is proposed as a medium-access control (MAC) strategy for the uplink channel of the UTRA (UMTS terrestrial radio access) time-division/code-division multiple-access (TD/CDMA) mode to benefit from efficient statistical multiplexing on the large common pool of available resources (i.e., slots defined both in time and code domain). A prioritized Bayesian broadcast algorithm is derived to stabilize multidimensional packet reservation multiple access (MD PRMA) and to allow for access delay discrimination of four different access classes. Access delay spread can be selected, and trading voice-dropping ratio against data-access delay is possible. To control multiple-access interference, Bayesian broadcast can be combined with load-based access control. The performance of both frequency-division duplex (FDD) and time-division duplex (TDD) mode is evaluated, the latter particularly relevant for TD/CDMA. For mixed voice, Worldwide Web (WWW) browsing, and e-mail traffic, the UMTS WWW model is used, while the e-mail traffic model is derived here     

Performance analysis of a PRMA protocol suitable for voice and datatransmissions in low Earth orbit mobile satellite systems

Mobile satellite systems (MSSs) are expected to play a significant role in providing users with communication services worldwide. In such a context, low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations seem to be a good solution to attain a global coverage and to allow the use of low-power lightweight mobile terminals. This paper analyzes the performance of a novel medium access control (MAC) scheme suitable for applications in LEO-MSSs, named packet reservation multiple access with hindering states (PRMA-HS), that has been derived by proper modifications of the well-known PRMA protocol. We envisage a mixed traffic with voice sources and data sources with different quality of service (QoS) requirements. The good behavior of the proposed PRMA-HS scheme is validated by extensive comparisons with the classical PRMA protocol. Finally, it is shown that PRMA-HS efficiently supports integrated voice and data traffic in LEO-MSSs     

On the performance of packet reservation multiple access with fixedand dynamic channel allocation

The evaluation of packet reservation multiple access (PRMA) is extended from a single cell case, investigated in several previous papers, to a cellular environment characterized by user mobility and by the interference from other cells. The analysis is based on a comparison of PRMA performances with those of classical circuit switching schemes. The comparison methodology is defined, and the comparison, performed by means of a simulation program based on a dynamic traffic model, is discussed     

Fuzzy/neural congestion control for integrated voice and dataDS-CDMA/FRMA cellular networks

The paper proposes congestion control using fuzzy/neural techniques for integrated voice and data direct-sequence code division multiple access/frame reservation multiple access (DS-CDMA/FRMA) cellular networks. The fuzzy/neural congestion controller is constituted by a pipeline recurrent neural network (PRNN) interference predictor, a fuzzy performance indicator, and a fuzzy/neural access probability controller. It regulates the traffic input to the integrated voice and data DS-CDMA/FRMA cellular system by determining proper access probabilities for users so that congestion can be avoided and the throughput can be maximized. Simulation results show that the DS-CDMA/FRMA fuzzy/neural congestion controllers perform better than conventional DS-CDMA/PRMA with channel access function in terms of voice packet dropping ratio, corruption ratio, and utilization. In addition, the neural congestion controller outperforms the fuzzy congestion controller