Packet transmission strategies to provide quality of service in a TDD-TD/CDMA system

Abstract

This paper presents some packet transmission mechanisms dealing with the provision of quality of service (QoS) over the radio interface in a TDD-TD/CDMA scenario such as the one considered for the UTRA TDD proposal in the UMTS system. To this extent, two different multiple access protocols are proposed for such an environment, based on the ISMA and DSA++ approaches, and they are complemented by a polling mechanism that allows a reduction in the access time. A scheduling algorithm is also considered in order to prioritise transmissions to guarantee the specific QoS requirements for the different services.