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Traffic Modeling and Characterization for UTRAN

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Wired/Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC 2006)

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This paper presents an analytical approach for characterizing the aggregated traffic carried in the UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access Network (UTRAN). The characteristic of the incoming traffic stream of UTRAN is studied based on the measured trace traffic from the simulations. The main idea of the aggregated traffic modelling is to employ Batch Markov Arrival Process (BMAP) model as an analytically tractable model, which considers different lengths of packets and batch arrivals. In this paper, the setup and customization of the BMAP model for characterizing the aggregated traffic in UTRAN is presented. The accuracy of the BMAP model is demonstrated by comparing with simulations and Poisson traffic model. At the end the potential application of the presented approach and its advantages is briefly discussed.

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  1. Communication Networks, University of Bremen,FB1, Otto-Hahn-Allee NW1, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Xi Li, Su Li, Carmelita Görg & Andreas Timm-Giel

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  1. Institute of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, University of Bern, Switzerland

    Torsten Braun

  2. Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik, University of Tübingen, Germany

    Georg Carle

  3. Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, 250 N. University Street, IN 47907-2066, West Lafayette, USA

    Sonia Fahmy

  4. Department of Communications Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Korkeakoulunkatu 10, 33720, Tampere, Finland

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Li, X., Li, S., Görg, C., Timm-Giel, A. (2006). Traffic Modeling and Characterization for UTRAN. In: Braun, T., Carle, G., Fahmy, S., Koucheryavy, Y. (eds) Wired/Wireless Internet Communications. WWIC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3970. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11750390_17

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