Performance characteristics of the Enhanced General Packet Radio Service for the mobile Internet access

Author

Stuck, P. ; Franke, J.

Author_Institution

Aachen Univ. of Technol., Germany

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

287

Lastpage

291

Abstract

The performance characteristics of the Enhanced General Packet Radio Service (EGPRS) with the focus on radio network dimensioning for the mobile Internet access are presented. The impact of the new modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) and the related link quality control (LQC) functions defined in the EGPRS specifications on the overall system performance and the quality of service (QoS) for the non-real-time Internet applications, WWW and electronic mail is examined. To achieve this, simulation results for EGPRS performance and system measures for different load situations are produced with the simulation tool GPRSim that models the traffic behaviour of an EGPRS network

Keywords

Internet; cellular radio; digital simulation; electronic mail; encoding; modulation; packet radio networks; quality control; quality of service; radio links; telecommunication traffic; EGPRS network; EGPRS specifications; Enhanced General Packet Radio Service; GPRsim simulation tool; GSM; QoS; WWW; coding; electronic mail; link quality control functions; mobile Internet access; modulation; nonreal-time Internet applications; performance characteristics; quality of service; radio network dimensioning; simulation results; system measures; system performance; traffic behaviour modelling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

3G Mobile Communication Technologies, 2001. Second International Conference on (Conf. Publ. No. 477)

Conference_Location

London

ISSN

0537-9989

Print_ISBN

0-85296-731-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1049/cp:20010058

Filename

923555