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Chapter 1Introduction pTDMA technique, which could not consequently be accurately modelled with existingmodels for either TDMA or random access mechanisms.In the area of this dissertation few works with an analytical approach have beenattempted. An exception was the work carried out by Sriram 2 [113]. He proposed asimplified analytical model to estimate the mean packet access delay of the IEEE802.14 and DOCISIS MAC protocols.In order to make a reliable estimation of mean access delay, issues such as contentionaccess delay (D c , the time a station takes to transmit a reservation request successfully)and queuing delays (W q ) should be addressed.For the approximation of queuing delays, according to Gross and Harris [45], thereliable result is given by the method of Pollaczek-Khintchine (PK). The author of[113] used the PK formula for queuing delays and for contention access delays (D c ) 3 , inhis work he used a simplified estimation given by a high percentile value of the meanplus five times the standard deviation. The same method, presented also in Sriram [112],was used to calculate the end-to-end packet delay (D ete ) 4 as the mean access delay plusfive times the standard deviation.We have used a similar approach to estimateDeteof the DVB/DAVIC protocol, and itwas found that the maximum number of users supported is considerably overestimateddue to the high percentile values used. For this reason, it is uncertain whether themethod of [113] can produce reliable results.1.2.3.2 Analysis of the stability of contention resolution algorithmsIn the literature, we have found that studies carried out in the past focused mainly on thestability of contention resolution algorithms (including the exponential backoff,2 The related work presented in this section will be cited the first time by the surname of the authors.3D c= F⋅ ( 2 + 3 ⋅ ρ ) , where F and ρ are the upstream frame duration and channel utilisation.4Dete= Dc+ Wq+ Tx+ 5 ⋅ σ , where TDx is the transmission delay of a packet and σDthe standarddeviation of access delay.1-7

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