Multiaccess Model for Packet Switching with a Satellite Having Processing Capability: Delay Analysis

The multiaccess model for satellite packet switching proposed by the authors [1] employs a frame format, with scheduling assignments broadcast from the satellite. The total delay recurred by a data packet in traversing the satellite channel consists of queueing delay, scheduling delay, transmission delay and propagation delay. In this paper we analyze the queueing and scheduling delays and compare the analytical and simulation results. For the queuemg delay analysis we model the multiaccess scheme using anM/D/Nqueue, whereNis the number of slots per frame. For the scheduling delay analysis we emply a round-robin scheduling assignment algorithm. We treat the cases with and without random transmission; our results indicate that random transmission improves the queueing delay performance.