A CDMA mobile system consists of subsystems that transmit and receive call control messages and traffic messages through the CDMA Interconnection Network (CIN). To assure high throughput and short delay in the CIN, an efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol should be provided.
In this study, we propose a new MAC protocol for CDMA interconnection networks in order to provide real-time communications in CDMA mobile systems. Also, we evaluate the delay performance of the proposed MAC protocol and compare it with that of existing MAC protocol. Through numerical examples, we show that the proposed protocol provides better delay performance than the existing protocol.
Keywords CDMA interconnection network - virtual token bus with cyclic chain (VTBC)