Traffic engineering for the evolution of GPRS/EDGE networks

Author

Hoymann, Christian ; Stuckmann, Peter

Author_Institution

Commun. Networks, Aachen Univ., Germany

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

1279

Abstract

Radio network dimensioning for the evolution of GSM/EDGE networks towards 3rd generation (3G) mobile radio networks is presented. Taking simulation results for GPRS/EGPRS introduction and evolution scenarios as the basis, the radio resources needed for a given offered traffic and for given quality of service (QoS) requirements can estimated. Both circuit-switched voice traffic and packet-switched Internet traffic are considered, sharing the radio resources available in a GSM radio cell. To achieve this, the simulation tool GPRSim is used that comprises a prototypical implementation of the standardized GPRS protocols and stochastic load generators for typical GPRS usage.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; Internet; cellular radio; integrated voice/data communication; multimedia communication; packet radio networks; parameter estimation; quality of service; telecommunication network planning; telecommunication traffic; 3G mobile radio networks; 3rd generation mobile radio networks; EDGE networks; GPRS; GSM radio cell; QoS; circuit-switched voice traffic; multimedia streaming; packet-switched Internet traffic; quality of service; radio resources; traffic engineering; Circuit simulation; GSM; Ground penetrating radar; Internet; Land mobile radio; Quality of service; Radio network; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Virtual prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Vehicular Technology Conference, 2002. Proceedings. VTC 2002-Fall. 2002 IEEE 56th

ISSN

1090-3038

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7467-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VETECF.2002.1040811

Filename

1040811