Medium Access Control Protocol for wireless, transparent ATM access

This paper describes a MAC protocol called DSA++ that allows the full integration of mobile ATM terminals into an ATM network by extending the statistical multiplexing from ATM multiplexers on the air interface, offering capacity on demand. The DSA++ protocol offers functions necessary for the implementation of a resource scanning algorithm and power saving mode in the mobile station as well as a dynamic frequency selection algorithm in the base station. I. Introduction The Asynchronous-Transfer-Mode (ATM) turned out to be the transmission technique of future communication networks[1]. Following the general trend of extending services of fixed networks to mobile users, necessary network structures and protocols for a mobile extension of ATM networks are investigated within the project Mobile Broadband System[2] (MBS, R2067, supported by the European Commission under the RACE programme). The goal of MBS is to allow full integration of mobile ATM terminals into a fixed ATM network. Th..