Performance analysis of equation based TFRC over wireless links with link level ARQ

Author

Shen, Hong ; Cai, Lin ; Shen, Xuemin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

29 Nov.-3 Dec. 2004

Firstpage

1681

Abstract

The equation based TCP-friendly rate control protocol (TFRC) has been proposed to support multimedia applications. In this paper, an analytical approach is proposed for quantifying the performance of equation based TFRC over wireless/Internet integrated networks. Specifically, discrete time Markov chains (DTMC) are developed to analyze the performance of TFRC-controlled multimedia flows, in terms of wireless resource utilization, flow throughput, packet loss rate, and probability of end-to-end delay exceeding a prescribed threshold. It is shown that the maximum number of link layer retransmissions and the required base station buffer size can be determined based on the application´s QoS requirements.

Keywords

Internet; Markov processes; automatic repeat request; bandwidth allocation; delays; mobile computing; multimedia communication; packet radio networks; probability; quality of service; telecommunication congestion control; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; DTMC; QoS requirements; TCP-friendly rate control protocol; base station buffer size; delay threshold; discrete time Markov chains; end-to-end delay; equation based TFRC; flow throughput; link layer retransmissions; link level ARQ; multimedia flows; packet loss rate; performance analysis; probability; wireless links; wireless resource utilization; wireless/Internet integrated networks; Automatic repeat request; Base stations; Delay effects; Equations; IP networks; Performance analysis; Performance loss; Protocols; Resource management; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2004. GLOBECOM '04. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8794-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2004.1378267

Filename

1378267