A bandwidth-on-demand strategy for GPRS

General packet radio service (GPRS) is a global system for mobile communications (GSM) packet data service. In order to efficiently accommodate GPRS traffic while maintaining the desired service quality of GSM calls, we propose a GPRS bandwidth-allocation strategy called the bandwidth-on-demand (BoD) strategy. The BoD strategy is adaptive to the change of traffic conditions, and thus can dynamically adjust the number of channels for GSM and GPRS traffic. Taking the effect of packet dropping due to movements of mobile stations into account, this paper develops an analytical model to study the BoD performance in terms of GSM-call-blocking probability and GPRS-packet-dropping probability.     

GPRS若干关键技术的分析与研究

通用分组无线业务（General Racket Radio Service,GPRS）作为GSM网络新的承载服务,解决了传统GSM网中数据传递慢、计费方式单一的缺点,本文重点是对GPRS移动性管理和无线资源分配做了详细分析,并对GPRS计费原则做了进一步的研究。     

Channel Allocation for GPRS with Buffering Mechanisms

General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) provides mobile users end-to-end packet-switched services by sharing the radio channels with voice and circuit-switched services. In such a system, radio resource allocation for circuit-switched and packet-switched services is an important issue, which may affect the QoS for both services significantly. In this paper, we propose two algorithms: Dynamic Resource Allocation with Voice and Packet queues (DRAVP) and Dynamic Resource Allocation with Packet and Voice queues (DRAPV) for channel allocation of the voice calls and packets. We propose analytic and simulation models to investigate the performance of DRAVP and DRAPV in terms of voice call incompletion probability, packet dropping probability, average voice call waiting time, and average packet waiting time. Our study indicates that the buffering mechanism for GPRS packets significantly increase the acceptance rate of GPRS packets at the cost of slightly degrading the performance of voice calls.     

Performance analysis of channel de-allocation schemes for dynamic resource allocation in GSM/GPRS networks

Channel de-allocation for GSM voice call (DASV) has been considered for dynamic resource allocation in GSM/GPRS networks. Two new de-allocation schemes are proposed: de-allocation for GPRS packet (DASP) and de-allocation for both GSM voice call and GPRS packet (DASVP). An analytic model with general GPRS data channel requirement is derived to evaluate the performance of the schemes in terms of GSM voice call incompletion probability, GPRS packet dropping probability, average GPRS packet transmission time and channel utilisation.     

无线分组域时分信道资源计算方法

GPRS技术曾经希望使用话音业务剩余的无线资源提供分组数据的传输.实际网络运营时,为了提高用户满意度,运营商必须付出额外的成本,分配GPRS专用信道.本文提出了一种使用坎贝尔算法的GPRS无线资源分配算法,考虑了用户期望带宽和小区吞吐量,这两个参量分别代表了用户利益和运营商利益,算法给出了利益妥协结果下需要的GPRS无线信道配置.本文还介绍了另外两种资源分配算法,并进行了性能比较.     

Performance comparisons of dynamic resource allocation with/without channel de-allocationin GSM/GPRS networks

In this letter, we analyzed and compared the performance of dynamic resource allocation with/without channel de-allocation in GSM/GPRS networks. It is quite known that dynamic resource allocation allows communication systems to utilize their resources more efficiently than the traditional fixed allocation schemes. In GPRS, multiple channels may be allocated to a user to increase the transmission rate. In the case when there are no free channels in the system, some of these channels may be de-allocated to serve higher priority calls. The results show that with channel de-allocation mechanism, the voice blocking probability can be greatly reduced, especially at high GPRS traffic load. Besides, the scheme with channel de-allocation mechanism can achieve higher channel utilization.     

End-to-End Adaptive QoS Provisioning over GPRS Wireless Mobile Network

The General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) offers performance guaranteed packet data services to mobile users over wireless frequency-division duplex links with time division multiple access, and core packet data networks. This paper presents a dynamic adaptive guaranteed Quality-of-Service (QoS) provisioning scheme over GPRS wireless mobile links by proposing a guaranteed QoS media access control (GQ-MAC) protocol and an accompanying adaptive prioritized-handoff call admission control (AP-CAC) protocol to maintain GPRS QoS guarantees under the effect of mobile handoffs. The GQ-MAC protocol supports bounded channel access delay for delay-sensitive traffic, bounded packet loss probability for loss-sensitive traffic, and dynamic adaptive resource allocation for bursty traffic with peak bandwidth allocation adapted to the current queue length. The AP-CAC protocol provides dynamic adaptive prioritized admission by differentiating handoff requests with higher admission priorities over new calls via a dynamic multiple guard channels scheme, which dynamically adapts the capacity reserved for dealing with handoff requests based on the current traffic conditions in the neighboring radio cells. Integrated services (IntServ) QoS provisioning over the IP/ATM-based GPRS core network is realized over a multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) architecture, and mobility is supported over the core network via a novel mobile label-switching tree (MLST) architecture. End-to-end QoS provisioning over the GPRS wireless mobile network is realized by mapping between the IntServ and GPRS QoS requirements, and by extending the AP-CAC protocol from the wireless medium to the core network to provide a unified end-to-end admission control with dynamic adaptive admission priorities.     

Outage Probability in GSM-GPRS Cellular Systems With and Without Frequency Hopping

General packet radio service(GPRS) is designed for transmitting packet data andis supposed to take its radio resource from the pool ofunused channels of GSM voice services. Obviously, theintroduction of GPRS has an impact on the voice services.In this paper, we present a method to calculate theoutage probability of the GSM-GPRS network for bothnon-frequency hopping and frequency hoppingsystems. This method takes into account Rayleighfading, power control (with error), discontinuoustransmission, and frequency hopping (if applied). Theoutage probability of voice services affected by theintroduction of GPRS is discussed. The number ofunused voice channels allocated to GPRS depends on thedifference between the outage level of the existingGSM network and the maximum acceptable level. Thefrequency hopping system can accommodate more GPRStraffic than the non-frequency hopping system. Thepower control error has more impact on systemperformance when more channels are allocated to GPRS.Beyond our expectations, for the non-frequency hoppingsystem, the channels provided for GPRS are not muchdifferent between high channel occupancy and lowchannel occupancy of voice services. In contrast, for thefrequency hopping system, the system can provide morechannels for GPRS at low channel occupancy. The cellservice area decreases by about 10% 20% for eachadditional channel allocated to GPRS.     

Performance evaluation of GSM/GPRS networks with channel re-allocation scheme

Previous work studying the channel allocation schemes in GSM/GPRS network commonly assume that one or two channels are required by a GPRS data for the sake of analytical simplicity. In this letter, we remove the assumption and generalize the GPRS data channel requirement (M channels). Additionally, we propose a channel re-allocation scheme (RAS), executed upon the channel release, by re-allocating the idle channels to the GPRS data which is currently using less than M channels. The example findings show that RAS can significantly decrease the voice call blocking probability and GPRS packet transmission time with slight channel utilization increase and negligible expense on GPRS packet blocking probability. Small M (e.g.M=2) will underestimate the performance achievements of the prior channel allocation scheme as well as RAS.