Wireless Internet access over GSM and UMTS
By: Manfred Taferner, Ernst Bonek
Contributors: Bonek, Ernst, author
Series: Signals and communication technology; Signals and communication technology
Published: 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9783662047712; 9783642076435
Subjects: Wireless communication systems; Internet telephony; Global system for mobile communications; TCP/IP (Computer network protocol); Data transmission systems
Description: The book provides a comprehensive investigation of the performance and problems of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) protocol stack, when data is transmitted over GSM, GPRS and UMTS. It gives an introduction into the protocols used for Internet access today and briefly into the Wireless application Protocol, WAP. The basics of GSM, GPRS and UMTS are given necessary for understanding the main topic, TCP performance over GSM, GPRS and UMTS. We then describe at length the problems that TCP has when operating over a mobile radio link, and what has been proposed to remedy these problems. We derive the optimum TCP packet length for maximum data throughput on wireless networks, analytically and by simulation. Results on the throughput and various other parameters of TCP over mobile networks are given. This book gives valuable advice to network operators and application programmers how to maximise data throughput, and which protocols, transmission modes, and coding schemes to prefer and which to avoid to achieve this goal.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Protocols for internet access; title: Data transmission in GSM; title: Data transmission in UMTS; title: TCP in wireless environments; title: Summary and conclusions.