QoS of internet access with GPRS

  • Authors:
  • Dirk Staehle;Kenji Leibnitz;Konstantin Tsipotis

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany;University of Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074 Würzburg, Germany;Libertel-Vodafone, Ave. Ceramique 300, 6221 KX Maastricht, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • MSWIM '01 Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In this paper we examine the effects of Internet traffic on the quality of service (QoS) in GPRS wireless networks. With a stochastic source traffic model describing the user behavior, we will derive subjective and objective quality of service measures in terms of WWW downloading time and the transmission bandwidths on TCP and TBF level. Comparing the obtained values with wireline network modems and ISDN yields a slowdown factor which indicates the subjective degradation that the wireless user experiences.