Multiple access protocol for integration of variable bit rate multimedia traffic in UMTS/IMT-2000 based on wideband CDMA

  • Authors:
  • R. Fantacci;S. Nannicini

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electron. & Telecommun., Firenze Univ., Italy;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The UMTS terrestrial radio access (UTRA), based on a wideband DS-CDMA technique, fully supports the UMTS requirements and has flexible support for real-time, variable-bit-rate services, as well as an efficient packet mode. This paper presents a description and a performance evaluation of a medium access protocol which may be used in the UTRA system to provide constant-bit-rate (voice), variable bit-rate (video), and low priority data services. The performance evaluation of voice and data services has been carried out by a suitable analytical approach. Simulation results are also shown in order to validate analytical predictions