Capacity of slotted ALOHA under Nakagami fading.

Abstract

Random Access Schemes for the mobile communication systems are widely investigated. The choice of a particular random access scheme changes the way in which the mobile terminals contend for getting hold of the channel. Slotted ALOHA is one such scheme which, despite being simple, is shown to offer a good performance over mobile radio channels. The present thesis is focussed on the study of slotted ALOHA under a generalized fading model taking into account various physical effects of a mobile radio channel. Though this study generalized results are obtained which provide better mathematical insight to model the real world changing transmission scenario.