Reservation
ALOHA, or R-ALOHA, is a
channel access method
In telecommunications and computer networks, a channel access method or multiple access method allows more than two terminals connected to the same transmission medium to transmit over it and to share its capacity. Examples of shared physical m ...
for
wireless
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(or other shared channel)
transmission that allows uncoordinated users to share a common transmission resource. Reservation ALOHA (and its parent scheme,
Slotted ALOHA
ALOHAnet, also known as the ALOHA System, or simply ALOHA, was a pioneering computer networking system developed at the University of Hawaii. ALOHAnet became operational in June 1971, providing the first public demonstration of a wireless packe ...
) is a schema or rule set for the division of transmission resources over fixed time increments, also known as
slots. If followed by all devices, this scheme allows the channel's users to cooperatively use a shared transmission resource—in this case, it is the allocation of transmission time.
Reservation ALOHA is an effort to improve the efficiency of Slotted ALOHA. The improvements with Reservation ALOHA are markedly shorter delays and ability to efficiently support higher levels of utilization. As a contrast of efficiency, simulations have shown that Reservation ALOHA exhibits less delay at 80% utilization than Slotted ALOHA at 20–36% utilization.
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The chief difference between Slotted and Reservation ALOHA is that with Slotted ALOHA, any slot is available for utilization without regards to prior usage. Under Reservation ALOHA's
contention-based reservation schema, the slot is temporarily considered "owned" by the station that successfully used it. Additionally, Reservation ALOHA simply stops sending data once the station has completed its transmission. As a rule, idle slots are considered available to all stations that may then implicitly reserve (utilize) the slot on a contention basis.
See also
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Channel access method
In telecommunications and computer networks, a channel access method or multiple access method allows more than two terminals connected to the same transmission medium to transmit over it and to share its capacity. Examples of shared physical m ...
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Dynamic bandwidth allocation
Dynamic bandwidth allocation is a technique by which traffic bandwidth in a shared telecommunications medium can be allocated on demand and fairly between different users of that bandwidth. This is a form of bandwidth management, and is essential ...
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General Packet Radio Service
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Media Access Control
In IEEE 802 LAN/MAN standards, the medium access control (MAC, also called media access control) sublayer is the layer that controls the hardware responsible for interaction with the wired, optical or wireless transmission medium. The MAC sublay ...
References
Roberts, L.G. "ALOHA Packet System with and without Slots and Capture" ARPA Network Information Center, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, California, ASS Note 8 (NIC 11290), June 1972*
Milosh Ivanovich , Moshe Zukerman , Fraser Cameron, A study of deadlock models for a multiservice medium access protocol employing a Slotted Aloha signalling channel, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), v.8 n.6, p.800-811, Dec. 2000Performance Evaluation of R-ALOHA in Distributed Packet Radio Networks with Hard Real-time Communications (1999) Te-Kai Liu, J. Silvester, A. PolydorosAnalysis of Priority R‐ALOHA (PR‐ALOHA) protocol, Alsbou, Nesreen and Prigent, Sylvain and Refai, Hazem H., Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 15 (4), 716-725, 2015
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