摘要
Efficient utilization of radio resource is one of the most important issues in wireless systems. In existing TDD based PRMA protocol and its variations, a mobile terminal is assigned on one of the frequency carriers after completing a registration procedure. Since mobile terminals enter and leave the system in an unpredictable fashion, some of the frequency carriers may become heavily loaded while other frequency carriers are underutilized. The frequency carriers can be utilized more efficiently by allowing the mobile terminals to switch among the frequency carriers. To enable the mobile terminals to switch among the frequency carriers efficiently, this paper proposes to arrange the frame boundaries on the frequency carriers in a slanted fashion. A scheme is proposed to enable a mobile terminal to switch among different frequency carriers such that shorter time is required to obtain a slot at the beginning of a talk spurt or a burst of data. Simulations are performed to compare the performance of the proposed scheme with a scheme that does not allow mobile terminals to switch among frequency carriers. Our simulation results show that the proposed slanted frame arrangement scheme yields significantly lower mean request waiting time and packet dropping ratio. © 2005 Springer Science+Business Media, Inc.