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An Erlang-like law for GPRS/EDGE engineering and its first validation on live traffic

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Georges Nogueira,

Ahmed ZiramAuthors Info & Claims

valuetools '06: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Performance evaluation methodolgies and tools

Pages 24 - es

https://doi.org/10.1145/1190095.1190125

Published: 11 October 2006 Publication History

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This paper is a contribution to the generic problem of having a simple and accurate analytical model to dimension GSM/(E)GPRS radio cells where voice and data traffic are mixed. Radio resources are assumed to be shared according to the so-called Partial Partitioning scheme where some channels are dedicated to voice, others to data, and the remaining are shared by voice and data. Voice has a total preemption priority over data on the shared part. This work shows how to calibrate an Erlang-like law based on Markovian modeling for this complex sharing resource situation and to validate it against real data. We present a complete validation framework on a live network for a simple and efficient GSM/(E)GPRS analytical tool.

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Nogueira GBaynat BZiram A(2008)An efficient analytical model for QoS engineering in mobile cellular networksProceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks10.1109/WOWMOM.2008.4594845(1-12)Online publication date: 23-Jun-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/WOWMOM.2008.4594845
Nogueira GBaynat BZiram A(2008)A Markovian model for mobile cellular networks with QoS differentiation2008 6th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks and Workshops10.1109/WIOPT.2008.4586099(404-412)Online publication date: Apr-2008
https://doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2008.4586099
Purohit NTokekar S(2007)Performance Analysis of Uplink GPRS Traffic after a BTS Failure2007 IFIP International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks10.1109/WOCN.2007.4284158(1-5)Online publication date: Jul-2007
https://doi.org/10.1109/WOCN.2007.4284158
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An Erlang-like law for GPRS/EDGE engineering and its first validation on live traffic
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Modeling and simulation
    1. Model development and analysis
      1. Modeling methodologies
2. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques

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valuetools '06: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Performance evaluation methodolgies and tools

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DOI:10.1145/1190095

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Nogueira GBaynat BZiram A(2008)An efficient analytical model for QoS engineering in mobile cellular networksProceedings of the 2008 International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks10.1109/WOWMOM.2008.4594845(1-12)Online publication date: 23-Jun-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/WOWMOM.2008.4594845
Nogueira GBaynat BZiram A(2008)A Markovian model for mobile cellular networks with QoS differentiation2008 6th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks and Workshops10.1109/WIOPT.2008.4586099(404-412)Online publication date: Apr-2008
https://doi.org/10.1109/WIOPT.2008.4586099
Purohit NTokekar S(2007)Performance Analysis of Uplink GPRS Traffic after a BTS Failure2007 IFIP International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks10.1109/WOCN.2007.4284158(1-5)Online publication date: Jul-2007
https://doi.org/10.1109/WOCN.2007.4284158
Purohit NTokekar S(2007)Performance Analysis of Downlink GPRS Traffic after a BTS Failure2007 IFIP International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks10.1109/WOCN.2007.4284157(1-5)Online publication date: Jul-2007
https://doi.org/10.1109/WOCN.2007.4284157
Purohit NTokekar S(2007)Performnance Analysis of EDGE after a BTS Failure2007 Third International Conference on Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks10.1109/WCSN.2007.4475756(100-104)Online publication date: Dec-2007
https://doi.org/10.1109/WCSN.2007.4475756

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