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Chapter 6Optimisation of CRA using adaptive CSAs p6.2 Contention Slot AllocatorAs introduced in [61], [96] and [98], the authors have pointed out that the performanceof a multi-access reservation protocol depends more on the overall framing structureand the capacity assigned to the contention and reservation access modes than thedetails of the CRA adopted. In this section we focus on the performance impact whenthe reservation capacity is dynamically adjusted by the use of a slot allocationmechanism.6.2.1 How many contention-slots per signalling frame?After the INA has scheduled a number of reservation slots (RSs) to carry data packets,any number of contention slots (CSs) may then be allocated. When the load of thenetworks is low, very few CSs are required. On the other hand, since the load is low,there will be unused slots that could be used as CSs. As the offered load increases,depending on the length of the packets, more slots will need to be allocated as CSs.The solution to determine how many CSs is rather simple: allocate all slots that are notbeing used for data as CSs. At low traffic loads, many more CSs will be allocated thanthose required. The surplus of CSs significantly decreases the risk of collision ofreservation requests to a very low level, which in turn reduces the access delay for datapackets.This algorithm is a self-regulating mechanism, since if the number of CSs are too low,requests will not reach the INA and as a result more CSs will be automatically allocated.On the contrary, if the number of CSs is too high, more successful requests will reachthe INA and the number of empty slots that can be used as CSs will decrease to aminimum threshold value, which guarantees that at least a few slots will be reserved forcontention access. Thus, the performance of the network is highly dependant on theminimum number of CSs allocated in each signalling frame. In [61], [96] and [98] theauthors did not consider the minimum number of contention slots that should beallocated in each signalling frame, since this would have led them to a low performanceestimation. In the next section, we present a performance analysis for different valuesof the ‘Minimum number of CSs per signalling frame’ parameter using both CRAs.6-2

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