A Hybrid Medium Access Control for Convergence of Broadband Wireless and Wireline ATM Networks

In this paper, we propose a hybrid medium access control protocol for supporting broadband integrated services in the wireless ATM networks. The integrated services include CBR, VBR and ABR traffic varying from low bit-rate to very high bit-rate. The proposed protocol is an excellent compromise of contention, reservation and polling access techniques based on the dynamic TDMA system. Extensive simulation results using realistic data traffic sources, show that the proposed medium access scheme may provide QoS guarantee to different ATM traffic including the realistic MPEG video traces with low cell transfer delay and very high channel utilization of 90%.