Performance analysis of AAL2/ATM in UMTS radio access network

Author

Canton, A.-F. ; Tohme, S. ; Zeghlache, D. ; Chahed, T.

Author_Institution

Inst. Nat. des Telecommun., Evry, France

Volume

3

fYear

2002

fDate

15-18 Sept. 2002

Firstpage

1352

Abstract

The focus of this paper is the performance of ATM/AAL2 as a transport technology for Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN) in UMTS/IMT-2000 setting. In this work, we propose an analytical model for the transparent multiplexing and transport through UTRAN of several voice channels onto a single AAL2/ATM VC. We investigate the queue building up at the AAL2 multiplexer in order to derive some characteristics of the sojourn time of voice frames within the UTRAN. Our results quantify the performance of AAL2/ATM-based transport of voice in terms of mean queue at the multiplexer, mean sojourn time and delay violation probability within the UTRAN.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; asynchronous transfer mode; radio access networks; voice communication; AAL2 multiplexer; ATM/AAL2; UMTS/IMT-2000 setting; UTRAN; Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network; performance; queue; sojourn time; transparent multiplexing; transport technology; voice channels; voice frames; 3G mobile communication; Asynchronous transfer mode; Delay effects; Intelligent networks; Multiplexing; Performance analysis; Protocols; Radio access networks; Traffic control; Virtual colonoscopy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, 2002. The 13th IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7589-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PIMRC.2002.1045249

Filename

1045249