Improved IPv6 Packet Handling by Header Compression in UMTS

Authors
Kemper, Andreas and Karacan, Ibrahim
Department of Communication Networks (ComNets), Faculty 6, RWTH Aachen University Kontakt: Andreas Kemper

In In Proceedings of Next Gen. Teletraffic and Wireless Adv. Networking, p.p. 55-60, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2004.
Publication Date: Feb, 2004
On page(s):55-60
ISBN: 952-15-1132-X

Abstract
With the introduction of different multimedia services for the Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS), performance of the TCP/IP protocol becomes a crucial issue. A key difference to existing IP version 4 (IPv4) implementations is the usage of IP version 6 (IPv6) for data services in UMTS. Apart from various advantages of the new protocol version, IPv6 itself uses a significantly enlarged header as compared to IPv4. In combination with a relatively low amount of data per packet, this turns out to be a crucial issue in bandwidth-limited wireless systems. Hence the following investigations are concerned about the specific (dis-) advantages when using IPv6 instead of IPv4 in UMTS. Special respect is drawn to the effect of header compression, as provided by the Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP). Apart from this, particular services, like Voice of IP (VoIP), are known to produce fairly small packets. Consequently, the second part of the investigations is dedicated towards the effects of using different Maximum Segment Sizes (MSS) and packet sizes in the IP layer.

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@INPROCEEDINGS{Ke_NEW2AN04,
  AUTHOR          = {Kemper, A. and Karacan, I.},
  TITLE           = {Improved IPv6 Packet Handling by Header Compression in UMTS},
  YEAR            = {2004},
  MONTH           = {Feb},
  PAGES           = {55-60},
  ADDRESS         = {St. Petersburg, Russia},
  BOOKTITLE       = {In Proceedings of Next Gen. Teletraffic and Wireless Adv. Networking},
  INSTITUTION     = {ComNets},
  ORGANIZATION    = {RWTH},
  AFFILIATION     = {Department of Communication Networks (ComNets), Faculty 6, RWTH Aachen University},
  ISBN            = {952-15-1132-X},
  ANNOTE          = {UMTS, IPv4, IPv6, PDCP, Header Compression, Performance Evaluation},
  URL             = {http://www.comnets.rwth-aachen.de} 
}

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