An Analytical Model for Best-Effort Traffic Over the UMTS Enhanced Uplink

Author

Mäder, Andreas ; Staehle, Dirk

Author_Institution

Dept. of Distrib. Syst., Univ. of Wurzburg, Wurzburg

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The next step in the evolution of UMTS is the Enhanced Uplink or high speed uplink packet access (HSUPA), which is designed for the efficient transport of packet switched data. One of the major novelties is the relocation of the scheduling control from the RNC to the NodeB which enables a faster reaction to cell load and radio condition variations. Our contribution is an analytic modelling approach for the performance evaluation of the UMTS uplink in a single cell with best-effort users over the enhanced uplink and QoS-users over dedicated channels. The model considers two different scheduling disciplines for the enhanced uplink: Parallel scheduling and one-by-one scheduling. The model also considers the effect of power control errors and other-cell interference fluctuations as well as multiple dedicated channel service classes.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; cellular radio; information theory; quality of service; radio links; scheduling; telecommunication traffic; wireless channels; QoS; UMTS enhanced uplink; best-effort traffic; best-effort user; cell load variation; high speed uplink packet access; multiple dedicated channel service; one-by-one scheduling; parallel scheduling; performance evaluation; power control error; radio condition variation; scheduling control relocation; 3G mobile communication; Analytical models; Error correction; Fluctuations; Interference; Packet switching; Performance analysis; Power control; Radio control; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2006. VTC-2006 Fall. 2006 IEEE 64th

Conference_Location

Montreal, Que.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0062-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0063-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTCF.2006.466

Filename

4109731