The performance of the WWW traffic due to interactions between TCP and RLP protocols in a cellular system

Author

Kostic, Zoran

Author_Institution

Wireless Syst. Res., AT&T Labs-Research, Middletown, NJ, USA

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1158

Abstract

We investigate the performance of the WWW traffic due to the interactions between the transmission control protocols (TCP) and radio link protocols (RLPs) of various reliability. The study is done from the perspective of a cellular service operator, interested in maximizing the overall system performance. We implemented simulations of a spectrally-efficient cellular system based on the EDGE standard with numerous simultaneous users, each generating WWW packet traffic and operating the RENO TCP protocol. Due to the interference-limited nature of the system, the users experience over-the-air interactions similar to those of the congestion channel for which the TCP is suitable. The simulations indicate that tuning the retransmission persistence of the RLP protocol has a notable impact on the system performance. It is noted that the system performance when the TCP is used is not significantly worse when compared to the pure link layer performance

Keywords

Internet; digital simulation; microcellular radio; packet radio networks; performance evaluation; radio links; radiofrequency interference; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; EDGE based micro-cellular system; EDGE standard; RENO TCP protocol; RLP; WWW packet traffic; WWW traffic; cellular service operator; congestion channel; interference-limited system; link layer performance; loaded cellular system; over-the-air interactions; radio link protocols; reliability; retransmission persistence; service provider; simulations; spectrally-efficient cellular system; system performance; transmission control protocols; Data communication; Delay; Fading; Interference; Radio link; System performance; Terminology; Traffic control; Wireless application protocol; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2001. VTC 2001 Fall. IEEE VTS 54th

Conference_Location

Atlantic City, NJ

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7005-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VTC.2001.956957

Filename

956957