Paper Info
Title
The throughput utility function: assessing network impact on mobile services
Abstract
Based on the need for distributed end-to-end quality management for next-generation mobile Internet services, this paper presents a ready-to-deploy quality assessment concept for the impact of the network on the performance of mobile services. We consider the Throughput Utility Function (TUF) as a special case of the Network Utility Function (NUF). These functions combine the observed network utility at the inlet and the outlet of a mobile network. NUF and TUF capture the damping effect of the network onto user-perceived quality from an end-to-end perspective. As opposed to sometimes hard-to-evaluate QoS parameters such as delay and loss, the NUF is highly intuitive due to its mapping to a simple value between 0 and 100 %, which reflects user perception. We demonstrate the capabilities of the proposed TUF by measurements of application-perceived throughput conducted in a mobile, i.e. GPRS and UMTS network.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2005
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
wireless network,web service,general packet radio service,quality management,internet,quality control,utility theory,mobile computing,service quality,distributed system
Field
DocType
Volume
Mobile computing,User Datagram Protocol,Computer science,Mobile service,Computer network,Quality of service,Network utility,Cellular network,Throughput,General Packet Radio Service,Distributed computing
Conference
3883
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
5
0.58
References 
Authors
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Markus Fiedler158344.46
Kurt Tutschku235143.15
Stefan Chevul391.82
Lennart Isaksson4102.51
Andreas Binzenhofer517813.93