A Generalized Packet Traffic Simulator for 4G Network Dimensioning Tools

Author

Gonzalez, Maria E.

Author_Institution

Siegen Univ.

fYear

2007

fDate

22-25 April 2007

Firstpage

1131

Lastpage

1136

Abstract

Upcoming applications like VoIP or multimedia telephony in cellular networks require support of quality of service (QoS) in the radio access network (RAN). Cellular network providers who want to offer QoS based services have to plan their network capacity according to user demands. Therefore, the integration of a traffic simulator into the dimensioning tools becomes one of the most important aspects for the QoS support during the network dimensioning process. This article describes a generalized solution for packet traffic simulation (TSim) in cellular networks, which is carried out looking forward the interoperability that fourth generation (4G) wireless network promises to offer. The traffic simulator is performed and tested for EDGE and WiMAX systems. In addition, TSim extensions for UMTS and HSDPA are discussed. TSim simulates the overall traffic in a cell with the scope to evaluate the individual traffic flow QoS performance within a given RAN hardware capacity.

Keywords

4G mobile communication; Internet telephony; cellular radio; quality of service; radio access networks; telecommunication traffic; 4G network dimensioning tools; EDGE system; HSDPA; TSim; UMTS; VoIP; WiMAX system; cellular networks; fourth generation wireless network; generalized packet traffic simulator; multimedia telephony; network capacity; network dimensioning process; quality of service; radio access network; Capacity planning; Internet telephony; Land mobile radio cellular systems; Performance evaluation; Quality of service; Radio access networks; System testing; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2007. VTC2007-Spring. IEEE 65th

Conference_Location

Dublin

ISSN

1550-2252

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0266-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECS.2007.240

Filename

4212668