Optimum Number of RLC Retransmissions for Best TCP Performance in UTRAN

Konferenz: PIMRC 2005 - 16th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
11.09.2005 - 14.09.2005 in Berlin, Germany

Tagungsband: PIMRC 2005

Seiten: 5Sprache: EnglischTyp: PDF

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Autoren:
Mey, Olivier De; Schumacher, Laurent; Dubois, Xavier (Computer Science Institute, The University of Namur (FUNDP), Rue Grandgagnage 21, 5000 Namur, Belgium)

Inhalt:
As far as transfer reliability is concerned, the wireless segment of UTRAN is the weakest part of an Internet session. To overcome this imperfection, the RLC protocol features a link-level retransmission mechanism. In this paper, we show by analytical means and computer simulations that for a given Block Error Rate (BLER), the maximum number of RLC transmissions has a very important impact on TCP performance, both Round Trip Time (RTT) and throughput. We extend the link level Automatic Repeat Request model proposed by Peisa et al. (2001) to be able to set a maximum number of RLC transmissions, and with the help of Padhye’s TCP throughput model (2000), we determine the corresponding throughput analytically. We also show that, knowing the current BLER, a network operator may tune the maximum number of retransmissions either to reduce the RTT or to increase the throughput.