Evaluation of header compression schemes for IP-based wireless access systems

Author

Yiannakoulias, Alkiviadis ; Kuehn, Edgar

Author_Institution

Athens Nat. Tech. Univ., Greece

Volume

12

Issue

1

fYear

2005

Firstpage

68

Lastpage

74

Abstract

For mobile IP-based telephony (voice over IP) and IP-based real-time multimedia over cellular radio systems, an economically viable solution is needed. It is an absolute requirement that, for example, the 60-octet IPv6/UPD/RTP headers on IP telephony packets be reduced in size to conserve bandwidth in the radio spectrum. We evaluate the performance of two header compression schemes, based on RFCs 2508 and 3095, under the conditions of cellular radio access technology. The results presented in this article refer to voice and Web browsing traffic and are based on the implementation of compression/decompression algorithms for the aforementioned standards. We find that RFC 3095 performs significantly better if used for mobile communications.

Keywords

Internet telephony; cellular radio; multimedia communication; radio access networks; telecommunication traffic; IP telephony packet; Web browsing traffic; cellular radio access technology; cellular radio system; header compression scheme; mobile communication; radio spectrum; voice over IP; wireless access system; Circuits; Communications technology; Internet telephony; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Payloads; Protocols; Robustness; Speech; TCPIP; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Wireless Communications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-1284

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MWC.2005.1404575

Filename

1404575