Performance evaluation of SCTP over E-GPRS air interface for HTTP traffic

Author

Afif, Meriem ; Martins, Philippe ; Tabbane, Sami ; Godlewski, Philippe

Author_Institution

Ecole Super. des Commun. de Tunis (Sup´´Com), Tunis

fYear

2005

fDate

11-14 Dec. 2005

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

SCTP has been originally designed to transport PSTN signaling messages over IP networks. It does not suffer from the head of line blocking issue inherent to TCP due to its multi streaming functionality. This work investigates the influence of the multi streaming when used to transport web pages in HTTP 1.0 transaction over SCTP. This solution is compared to the more classical case of HTTP 1.0 over TCP. Simulations results are obtained for a EGPRS air interface, for different cell loads and for a non congested network. Loss of data is only due to transmission errors. The results show that SCTP performs better than TCP when serveral streams are activated at SCTP level and that the multi streaming feature is not unfair for TCP.

Keywords

IP networks; packet radio networks; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; E-GPRS air interface; HTTP traffic; IP networks; SCTP; 3G mobile communication; Automatic repeat request; Bit rate; Ground penetrating radar; IP networks; Media Access Protocol; Propagation losses; Signal design; TCPIP; Web pages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 2005. ICECS 2005. 12th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Gammarth

Print_ISBN

978-9972-61-100-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-9972-61-100-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICECS.2005.4633441

Filename

4633441