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Nikolaos Nomikos1, Themistoklis Charalambous2,3, Risto Wichman4
1Department of Ports Management and Shipping, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 34400 Euboea, Greece.
Abstract:
In this paper, a network comprising wireless devices equipped with buffers transmitting deadline-constrained data packets over a slotted-ALOHA random-access channel is studied. Although communication protocols facilitating retransmissions increase reliability, a packet awaiting transmission from the queue experiences delays. Thus, packets with time constraints might be dropped before being successfully transmitted, while at the same time causing the queue size of the buffer to increase. To understand the trade-off between reliability and delays that might lead to packet drops due to deadline-constrained bursty traffic with retransmissions, the scenario of a wireless network utilizing a slotted-ALOHA random-access channel is investigated. The main focus is to reveal the trade-off between the number of retransmissions and the packet deadline as a function of the arrival rate. Towards this end, analysis of the system is performed by means of discrete-time Markov chains. Two scenarios are studied: (i) the collision channel model (in which a receiver can decode only when a single packet is transmitted), and (ii) the case for which receivers have multi-packet reception capabilities. A performance evaluation for a user with different transmit probabilities and number of retransmissions is conducted. We are able to determine numerically the optimal probability of transmissions and the number of retransmissions, given the packet arrival rate and the packet deadline. Furthermore, we highlight the impact of transmit probability and the number of retransmissions on the average drop rate and throughput.
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