A Joint MAC-PHY Approach for Medium Access Control in VBR MC-CDMA Broadband Indoor Connections

Authors:
Claudio Sacchi;Giovanni Berlanda Scorza;Fabrizio Granelli;Francesco G. Natale
Affiliations:
Department of Information and Communication Technology (DIT), University of Trento, Trento, Italy I-38100;Department of Information and Communication Technology (DIT), University of Trento, Trento, Italy I-38100;Department of Information and Communication Technology (DIT), University of Trento, Trento, Italy I-38100;Department of Information and Communication Technology (DIT), University of Trento, Trento, Italy I-38100
Venue:
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Multicarrier Code Division Multiple Access (MC-CDMA) techniques were originally proposed at mid of 90's for wideband multi-user communications in wireless environments characterized by hostile propagation characteristics. In this work, the design of a MC-CDMA-based infrastructure is considered for VBR broadband indoor connections with real-time asynchronous multiple access. At the present time, Broadband Fixed Wireless Access (BFWA) standards like IEEE 802.16 and HIPERMAN can bring broadband services inside buildings, but indoor access should be conveniently provided by a local area connection. The capability of MC-CDMA of supporting asynchronous multi-user variable-bit-rate (VBR) transmission is exploited jointly with an efficient and real-time Medium Access Control (MAC) strategy in order to allow a significant number of indoor VBR users to transmit information in CDMA modality with different quality of service (QoS) profiles. Different classes of users are defined at the MAC level. The available radio resources (i.e. the orthogonal subchannels) are selectively attributed to transmitting users depending on their performance achieved at MAC level and measured by an "intelligent" gateway. When the quality level is not satisfactory for one or more users, the AP issues a decrease of the data rate for such users while providing them with an increased number of subcarriers, guaranteeing a slower transmission fostered against frequency-selective channel distortions. The paper presents an overview of the system and tests its performance through extensive simulations. The proposed joint MAC-PHY approach demonstrates good performance in terms of achieved throughput and high flexibility in radio resource management.