Performance Analysis of IP Header Compression

Several prior studies reported that the header compression (HC) achieves several gains like bandwidth savings, faster response time and better reliability. A few other studies reported about loss due to HC. In this short paper, we introduce a single parameter named "power" to measure the gains of HC. We also introduce another single parameter as "effective power" to measure both the gains and the loss of HC. We find that the performance measurement by such single parameters gives more intuitive analysis and understanding of functions of HC.