Performance analysis of serve on the move wireless LANs

Recently proposals are made to mount wireless trans-receivers on periodically moving vehicles. These vehicles were primarily meant to facilitate human transportation in places like large universities. The idea was to design economical networks using the already existing infrastructure, when delays can be tolerated. The salient feature of these networks is that the wireless server does not stop, rather provides the service to the users while on the move and as long as the contact is available. Thus the service of various users waiting on such networks is interlinked. One cannot model this system with existing continuous/discrete polling models, as the later assume the server to stop and serve before resuming with its journey. We obtain the conditions for stability and then the workload analysis. We also discuss optimal scheduling policies.