GPRS/EDGE/3G/HSDPA networks performance measurements in the State of Kuwait

Author

Almutairi, Ali F. ; Al-Jame, Fahad ; A-Buraikan, Abdullah

Author_Institution

Electr. Eng. Dept., Kuwait Univ., Safat, Kuwait

fYear

2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

GPRS, EDGE, 3G and HSDPA are wireless data services that are deployed by Mobile operators to provide higher data rate. This paper provides a set of measurements that are used to evaluate, from user perspective, these types of data services in the State of Kuwait. The Measurements are taken in different areas of Kuwait. Measurements show that HSDPA is the best wireless data connection offered by the mobile operators in the state of Kuwait. The measurements are based on measuring the Quality of Service (QoS) experienced by one mobile user running applications such as FTP and WWW on laptops connected to GPRS, EDGE, 3G, HSDPA networks.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Internet; Web sites; cellular radio; laptop computers; packet radio networks; quality of service; FTP; GPRS/EDGE/3G/HSDPA networks; QoS; State of Kuwait; WWW; World Wide Web; laptops; mobile operators; mobile user; performance measurements; quality of service; wireless data connection; wireless data services; Ground penetrating radar; IP networks; Multiaccess communication; Protocols; Spread spectrum communication; Throughput; World Wide Web; 3G; Cellular Networks; EDGE; GPRS; HSDPA;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

GCC Conference & Exhibition, 2009 5th IEEE

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3885-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEEGCC.2009.5734321

Filename

5734321