This paper reports on studies of the effects of the TCP/IP protocol header on the system performance of a spectrally efficient cellular system. Integrated cellular system and TCP-protocol simulations are used to examine the degradation in the effective data throughput and packet delay due to the header overhead. Performance improvements achievable by header compression are investigated. Simulations have been designed for an EDGE-like cellular system. System-wide performance is examined using cumulative distributions for data throughput, delay and packet success. For example, the data throughput of a micro-cellular system with Web traffic is improved about 10% when header compression from 40 to 2 bytes is implemented. More aggressive compression yielded minimal further improvements
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Wireless Communications and Networking Confernce, 2000. WCNC. 2000 IEEE
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Date of Conference: 2000