Characterizing radio resource allocation for 3G networks

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 137-150

  Qian, Feng ^a   Wang, Zhaoguang ^a   Gerber, Alexandre ^b   Mao, Z Morley ^a   Sen, Subhabrata ^b   Spatscheck, Oliver ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

3G Networks; Inactivity timers; Multimedia streaming; RRC state machine; Smartphones; Tail effects; UMTS

Indexed keywords

3G MOBILE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MACHINE DESIGN; QUEUEING NETWORKS; QUEUEING THEORY; RADIO; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

3G NETWORKS; INACTIVITY TIMER; MACHINE SETTINGS; MULTIMEDIA STREAMING; RADIO RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RRC STATE MACHINE; SMART PHONES; STATE-MACHINE; TAIL EFFECT; UMTS NETWORKS;

SMARTPHONES;

EID: 78650860703     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1879141.1879159     Document Type: Conference Paper

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