On implementation and improvement of robust header compression in UMTS

Author

Wang, B. ; Schwefel, H.-P. ; Chua, K.C. ; Kutka, R. ; Schmidt, C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

15-18 Sept. 2002

Firstpage

1151

Abstract

IP overheads are large and need to be compressed when used in UMTS to save radio resources. A robust header compression (ROHC) scheme has been proposed to provide high compression efficiency and high robustness. We study the performance of ROHC and investigate how to adjust some compression parameters that are recommended as implementation-dependent according to the ROHC specification. Based on our study, we propose to employ the power control mechanism already in the UMTS architecture to prevent additional packet losses in the worst cases of consecutive packet losses exceeding the sliding window width. The proposed augmentation can be seen as a network assisted feedback mechanism for ROHC.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Internet; feedback; mobile radio; packet radio networks; power control; telecommunication control; transport protocols; IP overheads; Internet access; UMTS; network assisted feedback; packet losses; power control; robust header compression; sliding window width; 3G mobile communication; Access protocols; Feedback; Next generation networking; Power control; Robustness; TCPIP;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2002. The 13th IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7589-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2002.1045208

Filename

1045208