Performance evaluation of WAP-based applications over GPRS

Author

Stuckmann, Peter ; Hoymann, Christian

Author_Institution

Chair of Commun. Networks, Aachen Univ. of Technol., Germany

Volume

5

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

3356

Abstract

Wireless application protocol (WAP) as one application of mobile data services is examined with the aim to provide guidelines for the dimensioning of next generation mobile radio networks. The performance of WAP-based applications over GPRS is evaluated in scenarios where the GPRS radio resources are shared with conventional Internet applications like WWW and e-mail. Simulation results for quality of service measures for the different applications and GPRS system measures are produced with the simulation tool GPRSim that models the application and user behavior, the TCP/IP and WAP protocol architecture, the GPRS protocol architecture and the radio channel. Especially the effect of traffic generated by conventional Internet applications on the WAP performance and vice versa are determined. These results give an estimation of the GPRS network capacity needed for a traffic mix of WAP-based and conventional Internet applications.

Keywords

Internet; cellular radio; data communication; mobile computing; quality of service; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; GPRS; Internet applications; TCP/IP; WAP-based applications; mobile data services; network capacity; next generation mobile radio networks; performance evaluation; protocol architecture; quality of service; radio channel; radio resources; simulation tool GPRSim; traffic; user behavior; wireless application protocol; Electronic mail; Ground penetrating radar; Guidelines; Internet; Land mobile radio; Next generation networking; Quality of service; Telecommunication traffic; Wireless application protocol; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2002. ICC 2002. IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7400-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2002.997453

Filename

997453