Modeling Regional Reliability of 2G, 3G, and 4G Mobile Data Networks and Its Effect on the German Automatic Tolling System

Author

Pfitzinger, Bernd ; Baumann, Tommy ; Macos, Dragan ; Jestadt, Thomas

Author_Institution

Toll Collect GmbH, Berlin, Germany

fYear

2015

fDate

5-8 Jan. 2015

Firstpage

5439

Lastpage

5445

Abstract

Using an existing large-scale realistic discrete event simulation model of a mobile distributed system we model the infrastructure and dependencies of 2G, 3G and 4G mobile data networks. We investigate the effects of the different network generations and of transitioning connections between networks on the typical behaviour of the distributed system. In particular we enable the model to simulate regional outages of networks to predict the effects of shared back-end network components and the effects of mobile endpoints entering and leaving regional coverage.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; 4G mobile communication; discrete event simulation; road pricing (tolls); telecommunication network reliability; 2G mobile data network reliability; 3G mobile data network reliability; 4G mobile data network reliability; German automatic tolling system; discrete event simulation model; mobile distributed system; mobile endpoint; regional outage simulation; shared back-end network; Availability; Biological system modeling; Data models; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Roads; Servers; discrete event simulation; mobile data networks; reliability; tolling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences (HICSS), 2015 48th Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kauai, HI

ISSN

1530-1605

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2015.640

Filename

7070469