Design of 3G Wireless Networks with Access Concentrators

Author

Calin, Doru ; Mastromartino, Emiliano ; Parekh, Shyam

Author_Institution

Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hill

fYear

2008

fDate

March 31 2008-April 3 2008

Firstpage

3249

Lastpage

3254

Abstract

The paper focuses on the design of a third Generation (3G) wireless network employing traffic concentrators over the transport segment of the network. Thanks to their capability to achieve traffic multiplexing gains, traffic concentrators provide considerable operational savings by reducing the number of transmissions links required at the base station transceivers. This is particularly beneficial to Service Providers needing to lease transport links. This paper addresses potential network topologies with access concentrators and discusses benefits achieved by intelligently introducing traffic concentrators within the architecture of a 3G wireless network. It also presents a case study for a UMTS network.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; mobile radio; network topology; 3G wireless network; UMTS network; Universal Mobile Telecommunication System; access concentrator; base station transceiver; network topology; network transport segment; traffic concentrator; traffic multiplexing gain; transmission link; transport link; 3G mobile communication; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bit rate; Communication system traffic control; Network topology; Radio network; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Transport protocols; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 2008. WCNC 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

ISSN

1525-3511

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1997-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCNC.2008.567

Filename

4489598