Author(s):
Peter Benko, Andras Veres

IEEE GLOBECOM, Taipei, November, 2002

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A Large-scale, Passive Analysis of End-to-End TCP Performance over GPRS (pdf)

Abstract:
This paper a passive methodology for TCP performance evaluation over General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) networks is presented that relies on traffic monitoring at the GPRS ingress/egress router interface (Gi). Based on the IP and TCP headers of the packets we estimate the end-to-end performance of TCP connections such as connection setup behavior and data transfer goodput. In order to identify the eNecb behind the measured performance the introduced algorithms estimate round trip delays, packet loss ratios, available channel rates, throughput and carry out bottleneck analysis. Large-scale GPRS measurements in seven countries are presented to analyze TCP performance and demonstrate the applicability of the method The effects of different TCP parameters such as maximum segment size, selective acknowledgements, timestamp usage and receiver window size are also quantified. GPRS measurement results are compared to a wireline dial-up network to identify the eNecb specific to the wireless environment.

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