Paper Info
Title
Performance analysis of the general packet radio service
Abstract
This paper presents an efficient and accurate analytical model for the radio interface of the general packet radio service (GPRS) in a GSM network. The model is utilized for investigating how many packet data channels should be allocated for GPRS under a given amount of traffic in order to guarantee appropriate quality of service. The presented model constitutes a continuous-time Markov chain. The Markov model represents the sharing of radio channels by circuit switched GSM connections and packet switched GPRS sessions under a dynamic channel allocation scheme. In contrast to previous work, the Markov model explicitly represents the mobility of users by taking into account arrivals of new GSM and GPRS users as well as handovers from neighboring calls. Furthermore, we take into account TCP flow control for the GPRS data packets. To validate the simplifications necessary for making the Markov model amenable to numerical solution, we provide a comparison of the results of the Markov model with a detailed simulator on the network level.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1016/S1389-1286(02)00322-5
ICDCS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Mobile Internet services,Packet switched data transmission for mobile communication,Continuous-time Markov chains,Discrete-event simulation
Journal
41
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1389-1286
28
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.27
12
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christoph Lindemann1282.27
Axel Thümmler225723.52