Modeling and analysis of WAP performance over wireless links

Author

Rutagemwa, Humphrey ; Shen, Xuemin

Author_Institution

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

Volume

2

Issue

3

fYear

2003

Firstpage

221

Lastpage

232

Abstract

In this paper, an analytical model for studying the performance behavior of wireless application protocol (WAP) over wireless links is proposed. A Rayleigh fading channel model is used to characterize the behavior of the wireless channel. Mathematical expressions that represent the performance of WAP as a function of the protocol and the channel parameters are derived. Computer simulation results are presented to validate the analytical results. It is shown that WAP performs better in a bursty error environment than in a random error environment. The goodput of WAP can be improved by increasing the WAP packet group size, but the significance of the improvement depends on the underlying channel condition.

Keywords

Internet; Markov processes; Rayleigh channels; mobile computing; mobile radio; performance evaluation; protocols; Internet; Rayleigh fading channel model; WAP; bursty error environment; goodput; modeling; packet group size; performance; random error environment; wireless application protocol; wireless links; Access protocols; Bandwidth; Computer errors; Fading; IP networks; Performance analysis; TCPIP; Web and internet services; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1233

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMC.2003.1233528

Filename

1233528