Evaluation and prospects from a measurement campaign on real multimedia traffic in LTE vs. UMTS

Author

Fowler, Scott ; Sarfraz, Jalal ; Abbas, Muhammad Muddassir ; Bergfeldt, Erik ; Angelakis, Vangelis

Author_Institution

Dept. of Sci. & Technol., Linkoping Univ., Linkoping, Sweden

fYear

2014

fDate

11-14 May 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The LTE standard has been developed for high-bandwidth mobile access for today´s data-heavy applications. With broadband cellular available already from the UMTS system, users are expecting the LTE network to provide high quality communication. To ensure the quality and correctness of complex systems of LTE, it is important to evaluate the behavior of traffic on a LTE network in relation to UMTS. In this paper, LTE and UMTS measurements on video traffic were performed in a real environment, allowing for greater development, and understanding of network traffic performance.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Long Term Evolution; broadband networks; cellular radio; data communication; multimedia communication; telecommunication traffic; video communication; LTE measurements; LTE network; LTE standard; Long Term Evolution; UMTS measurements; UMTS system; Universal Mobile Telecommunication System; data-heavy applications; high-bandwidth mobile access; multimedia traffic; network traffic performance; video traffic; 3G mobile communication; Long Term Evolution; Mobile handsets; Multimedia communication; Protocols; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace & Electronic Systems (VITAE), 2014 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Aalborg

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-4626-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VITAE.2014.6934475

Filename

6934475