COST initiative "Traffic Engineering and QoS Control in Multimedia-enabled wireless networks"

COUNTRY: SPAIN

Organization: Departamento de Ingeniería Telemática - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Org-address:

ETSI Telecomunicación
Telemática.
28040 - MADRID
SPAIN

Representative:

Family-name,

ALVAREZ-CAMPANA

Given-name,

MANUEL

Degrees and positions

Ph.D. on Telecommunications Engineering
Associate Professor

tel.: 

+34 91 5495700 x.365

fax.:

+34 91 3367333

E-mail:

mac@dit.upm.es


URL: 

www.dit.upm.es


Activity related to the proposed action:

We are currently interested in the field of QoS provisioning and capacity dimensioning for the UMTS
Access Network (UTRAN), which falls under topic 1. This requires considering the different QoS
requirements for the four UMTS traffic classes defined by the 3GPP (conversational, streaming, interactive,
and background), which links with topic 3. The UTRAN dimensioning requires considering appropriate traffic
models (topic 8) for each traffic class. In our studies, we have investigated some traffic models for
the dimensioning of UTRAN interfaces. These models are simple, but capture the essential characteristics of
UTRAN (protocol stacks, different scales of time, influence of UMTS air interface, etc). We have also
developed a simulation model for UTRAN to carry out performance evaluation studies (topic 9) for different
traffic mixes and UTRAN configurations.