Throughput Evaluation in UMTS

Author

Chimeh, Jahangir Dadkhah ; Hakkak, Mohammad ; Bakhshi, Hamidreza ; Azmi, Paeiz

Author_Institution

Sci. & Res. Branch, Islamic Azad Univ., Iran

Volume

1

fYear

2008

fDate

13-15 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

168

Lastpage

171

Abstract

Today wireless data communication is growing rapidly. In particular, multimedia and Internet communications by wireless systems are the most popular services. Also, the architecture of the wireless networks is varying to support such services better. In this paper, we review, a radio access system, UTRAN (UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network), focusing on the RLC (Radio Link Control) and MAC (Medium Access Control) sub-layers and their error recovery mechanisms when it is connected to Internet. Besides, we consider data flows from RLC and MAC, then simulate the effects of RLC segmentation parameter and erroneous MAC PDUs retransmission Times on the throughput. Finally, we evaluate the effects of the probability of blocking error on the transmission delay and found out to get a maximum system throughput we should select a suitable segmentation value.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Internet; access protocols; error statistics; radio access networks; Internet; Internet communication; MAC; UMTS; UMTS terrestrial radio access network; UTRAN; blocking error probability; error recovery mechanism; medium access control; multimedia communication; radio link control; wireless data communication; wireless network; 3G mobile communication; Data communication; Multimedia communication; Multimedia systems; Radio access networks; Radio link; Throughput; Web and internet services; Wireless communication; Wireless networks; Internet; MAC; RLC; UMTS; error recovery;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Future Generation Communication and Networking, 2008. FGCN '08. Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hainan Island

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3431-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FGCN.2008.151

Filename

4734081