End–to–End Quality of Service Over Cellular Networks – Data Services Performance and Optimization in 2G/3G

Gerardo Gomez is Service Performance Competence Team Manager at Tartec in Spain. He received and Engineering degree in Telecommunications in the E.T.S.I. de Telecomunicacion, Universidad de Malaga in 1999. His area of research is Quality of Service management in 4G mobile networks. Rafael Sanchez is (E)GPRS Performance Team Manager at Tartec also in Spain. He studied Telecommunications Engineering at E.T.S.I. de Telecomunicacion, Universidad de Malaga. He has worked for Nokia, and moved to Tartec in 2003.

List of Contributors. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1 Introduction (John Cullen, Mattias Wahlqvist and Gerardo Gomez). 1.1 Mobile Services in Perspective. 1.2 Mobile Technology Evolution. 1.3 Motivation for QoS. References. 2 Cellular Wireless Technologies (Petteri Hakalin, Pablo Tapia, Juan Ramiro-Moreno, Raquel Rodriguez, M^a Carmen Aguayo-Torres and Rafael Sanchez). 2.1 Introduction. 2.2 GSM/GPRS/EDGE. 2.3 WCDMA/HSDPA. 2.4 IS-95/CDMA2000-1x, EV-DV, EV-DO. 2.5 WLAN. 2.6 Future Outlook. References. 3 Data Services Architecture and Standardization (Salvador Hierrezuelo, Alejandro Gil, Juan Guerrero, Raquel Rodriguez, Juan Torreblanca, Mattias Wahlqvist and Gerardo Gomez) 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 Services Architecture. 3.3 Data Protocols Characteristics. 3.4 SMS/MMS. 3.5 WAP. 3.6 Web. 3.7 Push-to-Talk over Cellular (PoC). 3.8 Network Gaming Services. References. 4 Quality of Service Mechanisms (Raquel Rodriguez, Daniel Fernandez, Hector Montes, Salvador Hierrezuelo and Gerardo Gomez). 4.1 What is Quality of Service? 4.2 IP-Based QoS. 4.3 QoS Architecture in 3GPP and 3GPP2. 4.4 QoS Policy Management. References. 5 End-to-End Service Performance Analysis (Rafael Sanchez, Gerardo Gomez, Pablo Ameigeiras, Jorge Navarro and Gabriel Ramos). 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 Service Performance Characterization. 5.3 Data Link Effects. 5.4 Transport and Application Layer Effects. 5.5 Impact of Network Dimensioning in the Service Performance. References. 6 Service Performance Verification and Benchmarking (Rafael Sanchez, Manuel Martinez, Salvador Hierrezuelo, Juan Guerrero and Juan Torreblanca). 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Key Performance Indicators. 6.3 Trial Methodology. 6.4 Technology Benchmarking. 6.5 Performance Analysis Example. References. 7 Customer Experience Management (Brian Carroll). 7.1 Overview of Customer Experience Management. 7.2 CEM and Service Management. 7.3 Advantages CEM Brings to an Operator. 7.4 Summary. References. 8 Service Performance Optimization (Gerardo Gomez, Juan Torreblanca and Mattias Wahlqvist). 8.1 Introduction. 8.2 Network-Level Optimization. 8.3 Transport-Level Optimization. 8.4 Compression Techniques. 8.5 Performance Enhancing Proxies. References. Glossary. Index.