A new medium access control (MAC) protocol for mobile wireless communications is presented and investigated. We explore, via an extensive simulation study, the performance of the protocol when integrating voice, video and data packet traffic over a wireless channel of high capacity. Depending on the number of video users admitted into the system, our protocol varies: (a) the request bandwidth dedicated to resolving the voice users contention, and (b) the probability with which the base station grants information slots to voice users, in order to preserve full priority for video traffic. We evaluate the voice and video packet dropping probabilities for various voice and video load conditions, and the average data message delays. As proven by the comparison with a previously introduced efficient MAC scheme (DPRMA), when integrating voice and video traffic our scheme obtains higher voice capacity and aggregate channel throughput. When integrating all three traffic types, our scheme achieves high aggregate channel throughput in all cases of traffic load.
['Polychronis Koutsakis', 'Michael Paterakis']
On multiple traffic type integration over wireless TDMA channels