MRAP - A MULTISERVICES RESOURCE-ALLOCATION POLICY FOR WIRELESS ATM NETWORK

In this paper we investigate the integration of both CBR (constant bit rate) and ABR (available bit rate) services in a wireless personal co mmunication network. MRAP is a proposed multiservices resource allocat ion policy which intends to share efficiently slot times of the TDMA f rame between two classes of traffic while satisfying the quality of se rvice requirements of both. By means of performance modeling, and Espe cially the stochastic automata networks model, we demonstrate that ABR traffic is transparent to CBR traffic while loss late is kept under r easonable values. By computing both blocking and dropping handover pro babilities, we show also that offered QoS to CER service is also satis factory. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V.