Title :
Impact of TCP/IP header compression on the performance of a cellular system
Author :
Kostic, Zoran ; Qiu, Xiaoxin ; Chang, Li Fung
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Wireless Syst. Res., AT&T Labs.-Res., Red Bank, NJ, USA
Abstract :
This paper reports on studies of the effects of the TCP/IP protocol header on the system performance of a spectrally efficient cellular system. Integrated cellular system and TCP-protocol simulations are used to examine the degradation in the effective data throughput and packet delay due to the header overhead. Performance improvements achievable by header compression are investigated. Simulations have been designed for an EDGE-like cellular system. System-wide performance is examined using cumulative distributions for data throughput, delay and packet success. For example, the data throughput of a micro-cellular system with Web traffic is improved about 10% when header compression from 40 to 2 bytes is implemented. More aggressive compression yielded minimal further improvements
Keywords :
cellular radio; data compression; delays; packet switching; statistical analysis; transport protocols; EDGE-like cellular system; Simulations; TCP-protocol simulation; TCP/IP header compression; TCP/IP protocol header; Web traffic; cellular system simulation; cumulative distributions; data throughput; delay; micro-cellular system; packet delay; packet success; spectrally efficient cellular system; system performance; Bit rate; Communication system control; Degradation; Delay; Error analysis; Fading; TCPIP; Throughput; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Communications and Networking Confernce, 2000. WCNC. 2000 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Chicago, IL
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6596-8
DOI :
10.1109/WCNC.2000.904643
