Performance modelling of MAC protocol for GPRS

Author

Jukic, Zlatan ; Hayat, Muhammad Faisal

Author_Institution

Inst. of Telecommun., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna, Austria

fYear

2011

fDate

22-24 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

351

Lastpage

354

Abstract

This paper presents the analysis and performance evaluation of the Radio Link Control/Media Access Control (RLC/MAC) protocol in General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) networks. The aim of our study is to model the Media Access Control protocol that provides coordinated access to the shared channels resources of GPRS radio interface. After describing a simple functional model for a single node in GPRS system, a detailed analysis is presented to model the behavior of a single GPRS cell. A Markov chain is developed to describe the single cell system and the expressions for the uplink throughput and mean transfer delay are derived using this Markov chain.

Keywords

Markov processes; access protocols; cellular radio; packet radio networks; GPRS radio interface; MAC protocol; Markov chain; coordinated access; general packet radio service networks; mean transfer delay; performance modelling; radio link control-media access control protocol; simple functional model; single cell system; uplink throughput; Delay; GSM; Ground penetrating radar; Media Access Protocol; Mobile communication; Throughput; General packet radio service; Markov chain; Radio Link Control/Media Access Control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR), 2011 19th

Conference_Location

Belgrade

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1499-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TELFOR.2011.6143561

Filename

6143561