Activity 3 Multiple Access Channeling Protocols
Activity 3 Multiple Access Channeling Protocols
College of Engineering
Electronics Engineering Department
Introduction
As what I have discussed in the previous activity, Multiplexing is the process of sharing a
Channeling Protocols, these protocols allow a number of nodes or users to access a shared network
channel. In other words Multiple Access Channeling is an application of multiplexing that allows
There are three schemes have been devised for efficient sharing of a single channel under
these conditions; they are called frequency-division multiple access (FDMA), time-division
FDMA is the most basic way of creating channels, by assigning users to nonoverlapping
frequency bands, it was used in first and 2G cellular systems. The purpose of FDMA is to divide
the frequency spectrum into slots and then isolate various users' signals by placing them in distinct
frequency slots. Each user is assigned an own frequency channel, as shown in Figure 1. Subscribers
The problem is that the frequency spectrum is finite, and there are usually far more potential
communicators than available frequency slots. A mechanism for controlling the available slots
Time division multiple access (TDMA) employs a time allocation approach to allow
numerous users to use a common media. TDMA’s goal is to divide time into slots and segregate
distinct users' signals by placing them in various time slots. The problem is that requests to use a
single communication channel happen at random, therefore there are times when the number of
requests for time slots exceeds the number of available slots. TDMA can operate as wideband or
narrowband. TDMA was used in 2G cellular networks to generate channels by giving users non-
overlapping time intervals. Each user in a system with N users can thus use the complete bandwidth
W, but only 1/N of the time. This means that, unlike FDMA, TDMA is unsuitable for analog
In TDMA, A user can only broadcast in buffer-and-burst mode within the time window
communication in digital form. Because the transmitter may be turned off when not in use, which
is most of the time, the non-continuous transmission results in reduced battery consumption.
Code division multiple access (CDMA) is a type of spread spectrum communication that is
utilized in several second-generation cellular phone systems, among other things. Signals are sent
in the same frequency band at the same time in CDMA. At the receiver, a user-specific signature
waveform, which is created from an allocated spreading code, is used to select or reject signals.
The CDMA technology is used in the IS95 cellular system. CDMA is also known as spread-
spectrum multiple access (SSMA) because the process of multiplying the signal by the code
sequence spreads the power of the transmitted signal over a greater bandwidth.
Figure 3.1: Code Division Multiple Access Transmission
frequently used as the basic modulation. A higher-speed pseudorandom bit sequence (PRBS), also
known as a spreading code or spreading sequence, is exclusive ORed with the data to be modulated
on each axis. After that, the signal is modulated, usually with m-ary QAM.
When another user wishes to use the communications channel, it is assigned a code and
immediately transmits instead of being stored until a frequency slot opens which is demonstrated
on Figure 3.2.
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