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An effective multiple access protocol for wireless (mobile)
networks such as wireless LANs is under active investigation.
Randomly addressed polling (RAP) designed to operate in
multicell wireless (data) networks was proposed to satisfy
channel utilization, no handoff roaming, transparency to
different physical layer transmissions, and other desirable
features. Taking system stability and system capacity into
consideration, we further modify RAP to GRAP (group randomly
addressed polling) for personal/ mobile communication networks
with multicell coverage. The performance of GRAP has been
theoretically analyzed and the numerical results are also
presented in this thesis. GRAP with better performance and
stability than RAP while keeping all the desirable features of
RAP is clearly one of the best candidates for multicell
wireless networks. In order to efficiently support voice, data,
image and other types of information in integrated service
wireless networks, we further adopt the reservation technique
into GRAP. This new protocol is known as R-GRAP (reservation-
group randomly addressed polling). The performance of R-GRAP is
first evaluated for voice wireless networks in the thesis.
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