Title :
Link layer analysis of the General Packet Radio Service for GSM
Author :
Ludwig, Reiner ; Turina, Dalibor
Author_Institution :
Ericsson Eurolab Deutschland GmbH, Herzogenrath, Germany
Abstract :
The General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is one of the services being standardized by ETSI for GSM Phase 2+. This paper briefly presents the status of the GPRS standard giving special attention to the link control/medium access control (RLC/MAC) protocol layer. Subsequently, an analytical evaluation of the GPRS downlink performance is presented. Faced with the increased use of Internet services, the downlink performance is an important metric as users-especially mobile users-will use the Internet mainly for consuming information, i.e. produce downlink traffic load
Keywords :
Internet; access protocols; digital radio; land mobile radio; packet radio networks; telecommunication standards; ETSI; GPRS; GPRS standard; GSM; GSM Phase 2+; General Packet Radio Service; Internet services; RLC/MAC protocol layer; downlink performance; link control/medium access control protocol layer; link layer analysis; mobile users; traffic load; Access protocols; Downlink; GSM; Ground penetrating radar; Media Access Protocol; Packet radio networks; Performance analysis; Telecommunication standards; Telecommunication traffic; Web and internet services;
Conference_Titel :
Universal Personal Communications Record, 1997. Conference Record., 1997 IEEE 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3777-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICUPC.1997.627220
