Forward link performance of medium access control for IS-2000

IS-2000, which is one of the major third generation cellular mobile radio transmission technologies, supports two classes of operation modes for packet data service: P1 and P2. This paper presents the forward link performance of P2 operation compared to that of P1. The advantage of P2 over P1 can be stated in several points of view. First, P2 can provide better effective rate and more available bandwidth than P1. Second, P2 can support more simultaneous subscribers than P1. These advantages are shown through simulations with WWW traffic modeling.