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| Title | Modeling and analysis of TCP performance under joint rate and power adaptation in multi-cell multi-rate WCDMA systems |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2001 |
| Authors | Hossain, E., D. I. Kim, and V. K. Bhargava |
| Conference Name | Military Communications Conference, 2001. MILCOM 2001. Communications for Network-Centric Operations: Creating the Information Force. IEEE |
| Pagination | 731 - 736 vol.1 |
| Keywords | bit error rate, broadband networks, cellular radio, code division multiple access, computer simulation, constrained BER, correlated shadowing, correlation methods, data communication, directional user mobility, downlink data transmission, error statistics, fading channels, homogeneous traffic load, Internet, long-term fading, multi-cell multi-rate WCDMA systems, multipath channels, multipath fading, multiuser channels, nonhomogeneous traffic load, nonuniform traffic load, power adaptation, radio links, radio networks, random user mobility, rate adaptation, short-term fading, TCP performance, telecommunication traffic, transmission control protocol, transport protocols, uncorrelated shadowing, uniform traffic load, variable spreading factor, wide area Internet |
| Abstract | This paper models and analyzes the performance of TCP (transmission control protocol) under joint rate and power adaptation with constrained BER (bit error rate) requirements for downlink data transmission in a multi-cell VSF (variable spreading factor) WCDMA system. The performance of TCP in a wide area Internet environment is evaluated by using computer simulation considering both random user mobility with uncorrelated shadowing and directional user mobility with correlated shadowing. Since the short-term fading (i.e., multipath fading) changes more rapidly compared to long-term fading (i.e., shadowing), multipath fading is assumed to be independent over successive adaptation intervals. System dynamics under multiple concurrent TCP connections is simulated for both the homogeneous (or uniform) and the non-homogeneous (or non-uniform) traffic load scenarios in a multi-cell environment. |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM.2001.985930 |
| DOI | 10.1109/MILCOM.2001.985930 |