A No-Feedback Distributed Reservation Protocol for CDMA Channels

In some military communication systems, the receiving platform is unable to transmit feedback information to the senders, either because it must maintain radio-silence, or because the feedback link is jammed. For such applications, a multiple access protocol is needed that maintains satisfactory performance in the absence of feedback. In this paper, such a protocol is introduced and an exact analysis and performance evaluation of it are provided. The protocol, which uses an unconventional reservation mechanism, exploits the capability of interference rejection that Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) provides.