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Wireless Internet Access Based on GPRS
ROGER KALDEN, INGO MEIRICK, AND MICHAEL MEYER,
ERICSSON RESEARGH,
ERICSSON EUROLAB DEUTSCHLAND
a recent yn, Interne fech-
nology has emerged asthe major driving force Behind new
‘velopment inthe area of elaeommunicatins sews. The
Novi af pote data tlle hs inetd at extreme ras. In
‘dor to mus hese changing tall pattern more nd more
fewer upeators adapt tei states sa plan Lo migrate to
IP-based backbose networks. Cle the Inert will dome
ter Gy ea the fete ch tare eta
‘enn, mabe nctwork face inate of expo
sential tfc nerease and growing importance to user to
Some counties suchas Pifand, the number of moe sub
Serinion hes ecenlyexeeede the numberof fed ince
“This tomendous auoces was not expected Inthe AOS, heh
taday’ssecond-generation mobile commuiestion systems
were deagnel
“ne combination ofboth development the prot of the
Internet spplications. Iris thavefore increasingly ‘portant
that rnobile radio netwarks support these application ian
elfcient manner. Thus, mobile radio sytem cuttently under
development include support for pucker data serves. The
most widely deployed siandutd for second-gencration mobile
radio networks isthe Glial System for Mobile Cor
tions (GSM) [1]. Networks based on this standard will he
‘extended in the neat futaze with the General Packet Radio
Seivice (GPRS), which provides dat rates upto 160 Ebi.
‘Wea ditenssons about GPRS stated fn the carly 19803,
applications such as road transport Lelematics and financial
sctvioes were diving the demand. Te high eost for ei
Switched GSM connections prevented the widespread uso of
‘mobile data transmission for such serviges. Tn recent yeu,
however, end-user applications sue ss Web browsing tide
mail avo becoming ineroasngly popular; therefore, the lotoe
not has dominated the standardization of GPRS. Internet
applications ate predicted to contribute the largest share of|
the expected trie volume,
im brict, GPRS can ho described as a service providing
optimized necess to the Internet, while rousing toa large
‘Segre existing GSM infcgstructure. Advanced mobile term
tls wsing mulcipie slats will olfer note convenient and fase
Injernet access than uxlay’s technology, The GPRS concept
dilows volume-orfeated charging. wiv permits Users to have
heap, permanent vonneetions to tne Internet
This arid conocateates oa to objectives. Fist, tpro-
vides an oveniew of GPRS, inning technology chee.
te, and appeal second, te presents some sinnlation
rents hat ca Ihe GPRS pirfrnance hy patel, the
Article analyzes Web browring, presumably the moet impor
tant apaliation of PRS,
"following section dsscibsin detail tho GPRS archi
toot and protcois: We then ftroee esr ad
{scape rfl modelsand parameters, Next the sia
ln rn re rset an ase fay nc
GPRS Architecture and Protocols
Overview
‘he increased demand foe data transmission has als
mobile networks. Aza consequence, two enhaticom
{GSM were standardized: High Speed Cirle Sched Data
(HSCSD) [2] and GPRS [3] The primary goal of bath ser
vices i 0 provide a hearer sevice wi ‘ats cates
THISCSD and GPRS use ney coding schemes and have the
capability 19 allocate more than one time sot te one usc.
onlrest to HSCSD, whichis cireuitswitchee! service (es the
5.6 Kb’s dota service in OSM), GPRS is a packer switched
service, This provides lot of advantages, xs exhibited lates,
but also cequires changes to the existing GSM networks
worldwide,
Packet Switching in GSM
“The base ies of GPRS Ifo provide a packet-switched eat
ring GSM network As impressively Temonttated by the
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