Real-time wireless communication using splitting protocols

Addressing the problem of packet transmission in a wireless soft real-time system, we present five splitting protocols that take packet deadlines into account. We show, as in the case of non-real-time splitting algorithms, that blocked access versions offer higher success rates than free access ones. Of the two best performing blocked access protocols, the performance under moderate to heavy loads further shows the superiority of the sliding partition collision resolution algorithm (CRA) over the two cell CRA.