Relation between transmission and throughput of slotted ALOHA local packet radio networks

Abstruct-A new method for the exact calculation of the throughput of a centralized slotted ALOHA packet radio network over slow Rayleigh-fading channels is presented and the results are compared with the computer simulations. Also, upper and lower bounds on the performance are provided. The effects of capture on the throughput of the system are related to the modulation and coding technique, signal to noise ratio of the received signal, general terminal distribution in the area and the length of the transmitted packets. The BPSK, coherent and noncoherent binary FSK modulations and BCH coding are considered for the exact calculations. The results of the analysis shows that the maximum average throughput of the slotted aloha packet radio network is around 60% rather than 36% predicted from the simplified analysis. In contrast with some previous reports, it is shown that the throughput of the system is not affected significantly by the use of coding or the change of packet lengths.