Overview and capacity of the GPRS (General Packet Radio Service)

Author

Ferrer, Carles ; Oliver, Miquel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Appl. Math. & Telematics, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

8-11 Sep 1998

Firstpage

106

Abstract

An evaluation of the capacity of the GPRS, as a packet-switched access mode for the GSM system, is studied. The work has been done assuming an air interface proposed in an ETSI draft document and taking two traffic models also standardised by this institution. Statistical multiplexing allows several users to share radio channels increasing the capacity of the system. Thus, the results obtained are: throughput and access delay depending on the number of subscribers each of them with an identical activity factor. We have also studied the 95th percentile of access delay and delay distributions in order to assure the QoS of the system

Keywords

cellular radio; channel capacity; delays; packet radio networks; quality of service; standardisation; telecommunication standards; telecommunication traffic; ETSI draft document; GPRS; GSM system; General Packet Radio Service; QoS; access delay; activity factor; air interface; delay distribution; packet-switched access mode; radio channels sharing; standardised traffic models; statistical multiplexing; system capacity; throughput; Delay; GSM; Ground penetrating radar; Packet radio networks; Packet switching; Speech; Telecommunication standards; Telematics; Traffic control; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 1998. The Ninth IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4872-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.1998.733521

Filename

733521