Performance evaluation of the ASR-ARQ protocol for wireless ATM

This paper introduces an ARQ protocol to be used on the air interface of a cellular system offering a full integration of mobile ATM terminals into a fixed ATM network. The special aspects of this ARQ protocol resulting from the transmission of ATM cells are described such as establishing multiple ARQ instances in order to vary the effort of error control on different virtual circuits dependent on their QoS requirements. The protocol has been optimized to work together with a MAC protocol offering capacity on demand resulting from statistical multiplexing on the air interface.