The Comparison of two Signaling Protocols for the Wireless
Anthony T. Burrell, Titsa Papantoni · 2003
In the wireless environment, the two major stages in the communication between any two users are signaling and transmission. At the signaling stage, the users are not well known to the system, a fact that necessitates the deployment of a Random Access Protocol. The signaling protocol deployed by current wireless systems is ALOHA based and is similar to the currently deployed Ethernet Protocol.In this paper, we compare the performance of the Ethernet Protocol with that of the 2- Cell Limited Sensing Algorithm, when both deployed as the signaling protocol in the Wireless environment. In contrast to the Ethernet Protocol, the 2-Cell Algorithm is Stable. The superiority of the latter algorithm is clearly shown, in terms of induced delays as well as in terms of rejection rates in the presence of admission delay constraints.