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Performance of a Dynamic TDMA System for Mobile Wireless Access

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A dynamic TDMA system can utilize voice activityand allow the integration of voice and data traffic.This can be achieved by allocating frequency channelsand time slots on demand. In this approach, upon the arrival of a talkspurt or a data packet,the base station is requested to assign a time slot foreach transmission. Message requests and assignments ofmobile users are carried over a Control channel, while the voice and traffic are transmittedover a Traffic channel. Time slot assignments are madefrom a “pool” of Traffic channels. A numberof slots in the pool will be shared by voice and data, with voice having priority over data, andthe remaining will be used by data only. Voice slots arereserved for the duration of the talkspurt whereas datapackets are assigned on a per-slot basis. Data packets can be buffered whereas voicetraffic can only tolerate limited delay beyond whichtalkspurts will be clipped off. The Control channeluplink access is based on Slotted Aloha so that mobile users have autonomous access to base stations.This paper presents the performance of the dynamic TDMAsystem outlined here. The analysis aims at assessing thecapacity gained by using voice activity and voice/data integration, in terms of theimpairments introduced to voice quality (e.g., speechclipping and/or delay) and the delays to data packets.The analysis has been based on a discrete time Markov model operating on a frame-by-frame basis thatprovides the joint distribution of the number of activevoice and data users in the system. The analysis alsoevaluates the delays of message requests via the uplink control channel. In evaluating theclipping probability, we combine the impact of both theaccess delays at the control channel as well as theunavailability of time slots in the pool. Performance results indicate that the capacity gain mayexceed 80% and the speech clipping can be kept below 1%.Also, data packets may be transmitted with limiteddelays even when all capacity is allocated for voice users. The proposed approach may be used toenhance the capacity of the existing TDMA cellularsystems and to provide integration of voice and dataservices.

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Drakopoulos, E., Gerakoulis, D. Performance of a Dynamic TDMA System for Mobile Wireless Access. International Journal of Wireless Information Networks 5, 321–340 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018858611899

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