Network Setup Time Analysis of Mobile Multi-Hop Packet Radio Networks under Virtual Circuit and TDMA Policies

摘要

In this paper the time required to establish a mobile packet radio network using virtual circuit switching and time division multiple access policies is studied. A tool is developed to determine the network setup time in terms of the channel bandwidth allocated to establish and maintain the network. Then these results are combined with the network capacity results of Pond and Li [5] to analyze the trade off between the capacity and setup time of the network. Also analyzed are the virtual circuit setup time statistics. The effects of mobility are considered. Since these results are not in closed from, numerical results are included.