A comprehensive approach to signaling, transmission, and traffic management for wireless ATM networks

We propose and evaluate a signaling and transmission algorithmic system for wireless digital networks, in conjunction with a Traffic Monitoring Algori thm (TMA) for dynamic capacity allocation in multimedia ATM environments. T he deployed signaling protocol is stable, and two transmission techniques a re compared: a Framed Time-Domain Based (FTDB) technique and a Framed CDMA (FCDMA) technique. The overall signaling/transmission/traffic monitoring pr oposed system has powerful performance characteristics, while the TMA-FTDB combination is superior to the TMA-FCDMA combination in environments where message lengths are relatively short and the speed of the transmission line s is relatively low. We also evaluate a system deploying the Ethernet proto col as a signaling protocol, instead. In the presence of relatively tight a dmission delay constraints in signaling, the latter is significantly inferi or to our proposed signaling technique. As the above admission delay constr aints diminish, the Ethernet protocol breaks down, while our proposed signa ling technique maintains its high performance characteristics.