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Performance Analysis of TDMA Protocol in a Femtocell Network

Keywords: Average Delay, Femtocell, Mean Number of Packets, Queuing, Time Division Multiple Access

Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology

Volume 33 ,  Issue 3

WANOD  KUMAR,IRFAN AHMED HALEPOTO  ,IMTIAZ HUSSAIN  

Abstract

In this paper, we evaluate the performance of TDMA (Time Division Multiple Access) protocol using queuing theory in a femtocell network. The fair use of wireless channel among the users of network is carried out using TDMA protocol. The arrival of data packets from M communicating nodes becomes multiple Poisson process. The time slots of TDMA protocol represent c servers to communicate data packets coming from communicating nodes to the input of FAP (Femtocell Access Point). The service time of each server (time slot) is exponentially distributed. This complete communication scenario using TDMA protocol is modeled using M/M/c queue. The performance of the protocol is evaluated in terms of mean number in system, average system delay and utilization for varying traffic intensity