Research - TCP/IP over Air Links - GSM/GPRS

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• D. Huang, J. J. Shi. TCP over packet radio link with adaptive channel coding. Proc. IEEE 51st VTC'2000-Spring, 790-794, 2000
... A channel-coding adaptation mechanism based on recommendation from the receiver is proposed. A traffic model that exhibits self-similarity is considered for packet data applications. The radio channel is modeled as a Rayleigh fading channel. ...

• R. Ludwig, A. Konrad, A. D. Joseph. Optimizing the end-to-end performance of reliable flows over wireless links. Proc. 5th ACM MobiCom'99, 113-119, 1999
We present the results of a performance evaluation of link layer er-ror recovery over wireless links. Our analysis is based upon a case study of the circuit-switched data service implemented in GSM dig-ital cellular networks. ... We show that the throughput of the GSM circuit-switched data channel can be improved by up to 25 percent by increasing the (fixed) frame size of the reliable link layer protocol. Our results also suggest that adaptive frame length control could further increase the channel throughput. ...

• R. Ludwig, B. Rathonyi, A. Konrad, K. Oden, A. Josep. Multi-layer Tracing of TCP over a Reliable Wireless Link. Proc. ACM SigMetrics'99, 144-154, 1999
... We propose the use of multi-layer tracing as a powerful methodology to analyze the complex protocol interactions between the layers. Our measurements show that TCP throughput over GSM is mostly ideal and that spurious timeouts are extremely rare. ... identify the primary causes of degraded performance: (1) inefficient interactions with TCP/IP header compression, and (2) excessive queuing caused by overbuffered links. ...

• J. S. A. Liew, C. W. Ang, K. F. Ho. Improving TCP performance over multi-slot GSM. Proc. IEEE ICC'99, 329-333, 1999
... improving the performance of TCP using a smart link-level retransmission scheme [snoop]. ...

• M. Meyer. TCP performance over GPRS. Proc. IEEE WCNC'99, 1248-1252, 1999
... Often it was suspected that GPRS introduces severe performance degradations for TCP-traffic since both apply their own ARQ mechanism. It is well known that layered protocol interactions can have very negative influences. This paper examines with simu-lations the performance of TCP over GPRS. The behaviour of the protocols will be analysed under various conditions. It will be shown that both TCP and GPRS are well harmonised.

• S. Hoff, M. Meyer, A. Schieder. A performance evaluation of Internet access via the General Packet Radio Service of GSM. Proc. IEEE 48th VTC'98, 1760-1764, 1998
... This paper presents a simulator, which was developed to assess the performance of GPRS when used as access means to the Internet. The focus is on the evaluation of the interaction between the protocols applied in the Internet and for GPRS. ...

• S. Hoff, M. Meyer, J. Sachs. Analysis of the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) of GSM as access to the Internet. Proc. IEEE ICUPC'98, 415-419, 1998