Performance analysis of mobile hotspots with heterogeneous wireless links

Sangheon Pack; Humphrey Rutagemwa; Jon W. Mark; Lin Cai

doi:10.1109/TWC.2007.060069

Performance analysis of mobile hotspots with heterogeneous wireless links

Sangheon Pack, Humphrey Rutagemwa, Jon W. Mark, Lin Cai

School of Electrical Engineering

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Abstract

Mobile hotspot enabling Internet access services in moving vehicles is an important service for ubiquitous computing. In this paper, we propose an analytical framework for studying the packet loss behavior and throughput in a mobile hotspot with heterogeneous wireless links. We first develop a two-state Markov model for the integrated wireless wide area network (WWAN) and wireless local area network (WLAN). We then derive the expressions that describe the experienced packet loss probability, packet loss burst length, and throughput. Finally, we present simulation results to verify the accuracy of our analysis. It is concluded that adaptive and cross-layer approaches should be deployed to improve the performance of mobile hotspots.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3717-3727
Number of pages	11
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume	6
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2007.060069
Publication status	Published - 2007 Oct

Keywords

Integrated WWAN-WLAN link
Markov model
Mobile hotspot
Performance analysis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science Applications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Applied Mathematics

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