The original DQRUMA/MC-CDMA protocol may suffer severe code collisions due
to a limited number of request codes. An enhanced DQRUMA/MC-CDMA protocol u
sing minislots for request accesses is proposed to reduce request collision
s. In the proposed protocol, request attempts are transmitted concurrently
with data packets of other calls. A random scheme (Scheme I) and a designat
ed scheme (Scheme II) are distinguished depending on the methods which sele
ct a request code and a request minislot based on a lattice pool for reques
t accesses (LPRA). Both schemes yield low request access delays due to few
or no collisions during request accesses. In Scheme I one of request minisl
ots is selected with a randomly chosen code, while in Scheme II the minislo
t and the code uniquely used in request attempts can resolve a code collisi
on problem during request accesses. The performance of the proposed protoco
l is evaluated by simulation and the result shows that the proposed protoco
l outperforms the original DQRUMA/MC-CDMA protocol in terms of average tota
l delay.