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The main focus of the research presented in thispaper is to evaluate how efficiently a commoncommunication medium such as broadcast radio can beshared by a large number of network devices in anin-building environment. The goal is to recommend anoptimal method to fulfil the demanding requirementsdictated by broadband multimedia applications operatingin wireless local area networks. To this end, apractical and efficient multiaccess scheme called“reserved polling” is proposed and analyzed.It is shown that the new method is able to handle anintegrated mix of multimedia traffic and operaterobustly in an unreliable wireless transport medium. Ananalytical approach based on queueing theory is employedto gain some insight into the complex behavior of theprotocol. This approach appears to be accurate in predicting its performance for both bursty andperiodic traffic types. The analytical results areverified by network simulation.
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Bing, B., Subramanian, R. A Novel Multiaccess Strategy for Multimedia Wireless LANs. International Journal of Wireless Information Networks 6, 275–284 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018868308689
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