Performance analysis of the WAP protocol over GSM-SMS

Author

Andreadis, Alessandro ; Benelli, Giuliano ; Giambene, Giovanni ; Marzucchi, Bernardo

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell´´Inf., Siena Univ., Italy

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

467

Abstract

This paper, based on the PALIO project, deals with an information tourist service accessible through mobile phones by means of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP). We have considered a Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) network where the WAP traffic is transported by the Short Message Service (SMS) on a logical channel that also conveys signaling messages. Suitable models have been proposed for both WAP and signaling traffic. An analytical approach (validated by simulations) has been developed to evaluate the mean delay to browse a WAP page

Keywords

Internet; cellular radio; delays; information services; protocols; radio networks; telecommunication traffic; travel industry; GSM network; GSM-SMS; Global System for Mobile communications; PALIO project; Short Message Service; WAP page browsing; WAP protocol; WAP traffic; Wireless Application Protocol; downlink; information tourist service; logical channel; mean delay; mobile phones; performance analysis; signaling messages; signaling traffic; Access protocols; Analytical models; Delay; GSM; Message service; Mobile handsets; Performance analysis; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Wireless application protocol;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2001. ICC 2001. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Helsinki

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7097-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2001.936984

Filename

936984