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Measured performance of data transmission over cellular telephone networks

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Kimmo RaatikainenAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 24, Issue 5

Pages 24 - 44

https://doi.org/10.1145/205511.205513

Published: 20 October 1994 Publication History

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Recent developments in mobile communication and personal computer technology have laid a new foundation for mobile computing. Performance of the data communication system as seen by an application program is a fundamental factor when communication infrastructure at the application layer is designed. This paper provides results of performance measurements of data transmission over two different cellular telephone networks, a digital GSM-network and an analogue NMT-network. Since our emphasis is on performance as seen by application programs, we use the standard TCP/IP protocols in the measurements. The performance is measured using three basic operations: establishment of a wireless dial-up connection, exchange of request-reply messages, and bulk data transfer. The external conditions under which the measurements were carried out present a normal office environment when the field strength of the cellular link is good or fairly good.

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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Volume 24, Issue 5

Oct. 1994

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DOI:10.1145/205511

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