Delay performance of the CFDAMA-RPR protocol via satellite

The relative performance of the combined free/demand assignment multiple access (CFDAMA) protocol with different terminal request strategies is examined. A new scheme is proposed employing combined round robin/piggybacking request strategy (CFDAMA-RPR), which is compared with the CFDAMA-RR (employing round robin request strategy) and CFDAMA-PB (employing piggy-backing request strategy). Simulation results demonstrate that compared with CFDAMA-PB and CFDAMA-RR protocol, the CFDAMA-RPR scheme can offer better delay/throughput performance of satellite channel.