HSPA radio access performance evaluation for Online games and M2M applications traffic (TCP vs UDP)

Author

Drajic, Dejan ; Popovic, M. ; Nikaein, Navid ; Krco, Srdan ; Svoboda, Poemysl ; Tomic, I. ; Zeljkovic, N.

Author_Institution

Ericsson d.o.o., Belgrade, Serbia

fYear

2012

fDate

20-22 Nov. 2012

Firstpage

9

Lastpage

12

Abstract

In this paper we presented results of the performance evaluation of the live 3G/HSPA radio access network when loaded with multiplayer real-time games and M2M applications traffic. Traffic, for the emerging Machine Type Communication and online multiplayer games, was generated by an application running on 10 mobile phones in parallel using TCP or UDP protocols. In the previous work NodeB processing power and the number of simultaneous HS users were identified as major bottlenecks for system performances. Set of new measurements is conducted with increased processing power and the number of simultaneous HS users. The focus of the work was on the radio cell statistics, i.e. to evaluate potential impact of the additional traffic on the performance of radio access network.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; computer games; computer networks; mobile handsets; performance evaluation; radio access networks; real-time systems; statistical analysis; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; 3G-HSPA radio access network; HSPA radio access performance evaluation; M2M applications traffic; NodeB processing power; TCP; UDP; machine type communication; mobile phones; multiplayer real-time games; online multiplayer games; radio access network; radio cell statistics; simultaneous HS users; Delay; Electronic mail; Games; Performance evaluation; Protocols; Servers; Wireless communication; HSPA network; M2M; Performance evaluation; TCP; Traffic modelling; UDP;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR), 2012 20th

Conference_Location

Belgrade

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2983-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TELFOR.2012.6419579

Filename

6419579