Comparison of signaling performance in the UMTS radio access network and a merged radio access network architecture

Author

Mitschele-Thiel, Andreas ; Schefczik, Peter ; Wiedemann, Anja

Author_Institution

Ilmenau Tech. Univ., Germany

Volume

3

fYear

2005

fDate

13-17 March 2005

Firstpage

1767

Abstract

The paper describes a case study in which the current UMTS radio access network (UTRAN, Release 3) is compared to a modified architecture where radio network controller (RNC) functionality is completely moved to the node B. The new architecture better suits IP principles. Both architectures are evaluated with respect to signaling traffic employing an event-driven simulation model automatically generated from a set of use cases. Our study allows the comparison of the end-to-end delay signaling traffic for both architectures.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; radio access networks; telecommunication signalling; 3GPP; UMTS radio access network; UMTS signaling performance; UTRAN; merged radio access network architecture; node B radio network controller functionality; signaling traffic end-to-end delay; 3G mobile communication; Automatic control; Communication system traffic control; Delay; Discrete event simulation; Radio access networks; Radio control; Radio network; Signal generators; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2005 IEEE

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8966-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2005.1424780

Filename

1424780