Title :
Performance of a wireless data network with mixed interactive user workloads
Author :
Shankaranarayanan, N.K. ; Rastogi, Anupam ; Jiang, Zhimei
Author_Institution :
AT&T Labs-Res., Middletown, NJ, USA
Abstract :
Wireless data networks will have a mix of user workloads since there will be a variety of wireless data terminal devices. Using computer simulation, we study the performance of an EDGE-based packet wireless network with various combinations of Web and dataphone users. We provide an understanding of the performance of a shared channel with mixed user workloads, and show that the number of users that can be supported can be determined using simple rules based on average traffic statistics.
Keywords :
Internet; cellular radio; data communication; packet radio networks; telecommunication traffic; time division multiple access; EDGE-based packet wireless network; Web users; dataphone users; mixed interactive user workloads; shared channel; traffic statistics; wireless data network; wireless data terminal devices; Batteries; Cellular networks; Computer simulation; Costs; Displays; Portable computers; Statistics; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 2002. ICC 2002. IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7400-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.2002.996983
