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The document discusses the impact of LTE retransmission settings on application performance, particularly for VoIP and FTP, in 4G LTE networks. It outlines the growth of mobile networks, presents simulations conducted using the ns-3 packet-level network simulator, and analyzes the performance impacts of adjusting retransmission parameters. Results indicate that using Acknowledged Mode (AM) significantly improves performance over Unacknowledged Mode (UM) under various loss conditions.

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Brett Levasseur Mark Claypool, Robert Kinicki ICNC 2015 2/16/2015 Impact of Acknowledgements on Application Performance in 4G LTE Networks
ICNC 15 - 2 BML 11/14/14 Network Growth • Worldwide Mobile networks in 2013 – ½ billion mobile devices added – 77% of this growth from smartphones – Mobile data traffic grew 81% – Mobile video traffic 51% of all mobile data • 4G in 2013 – 2.9% of all connections – Account for 30% of all mobile traffic – Predicted to be ½ of all connections in 2018 [Cisco 13]
ICNC 15 - 3 BML 11/14/14 General Problem Statement • LTE responds to poor signal quality by decreasing throughput • LTE has multiple configuration parameters for wireless retransmissions • How do LTE retransmissions impact application performance? • What LTE retransmissions settings impact application performance? • Which LTE retransmission policies are preferred in different wireless loss conditions?
ICNC 15 - 4 BML 11/14/14 Outline • Introduction • Background • Approach • Results • Conclusion
ICNC 15 - 5 BML 11/14/14 LTE Retransmissions: MAC [Dahlman 11] 1ms TTI • Hybrid Automatic Request Reply (HARQ) • Data sent at time n, arrives at time n • 3ms taken to check if data arrived with errors • n+4 ACK/NACK sent back • n+8 if NACK, data can be retransmitted – Up to 3 retransmissions for downlink traffic
ICNC 15 - 6 BML 11/14/14 LTE Retransmissions: RLC • Unacknowledged Mode – No retransmissions – Timer t-Reordering – wait before handing data up a layer for MAC layer to try recovery • Acknowledged Mode – Retransmissions – Timer t-Reordering – wait before requesting retransmission – Timer t-StatusProhibit – wait before sending RLC ACK/NACK message
ICNC 15 - 7 BML 11/14/14 ns-3 • Open source packet level network simulator • Successor to ns-2 • Funded by National Science Foundation and the Planete group at INRIA Sophia Antipolis • 2009 - 2012 ns-3 downloaded 50,792 times • LTE/EPC Network Simulator (LENA) • Developed Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya [ns-3] [ns-3 stats] [Baldo 11]
ICNC 15 - 8 BML 11/14/14 Related Work • Applications used in mobile networks – Böhmer et al. – Mobile apps mostly used for communication – Huang et al. – Majority of data over LTE uses TCP • HARQ – Kawser et al. – Found that MAC retransmissions could be limited to 3 or less as allowing more in poor signal quality conditions did not improve reception • RLC AM – Makidis – Examined TCP with RLC AM for VoIP and FTP but did not examine UM or MAC layer retransmissions
ICNC 15 - 9 BML 11/14/14 Outline • Introduction • Background • Approach • Results • Conclusion
ICNC 15 - 10 BML 11/14/14 Specific Problem Statement • How do MAC and RLC layer retransmission impact VoIP, FTP, Video – Delay/Loss/Throughput sensitive • How does adjusting RLC timer settings impact retransmissions and application performance • When is it better to use RLC AM or UM with varying loss rates at physical layer
ICNC 15 - 11 BML 11/14/14 ns-3 LTE Modifications • LTE module for ns-3 did not support NACKs in AM STATUS message • Joined discussion forum to implement NACKs – Worked with LTE module developers and others – Provided code for (de-)serializing NACKs to developers – Discussed specifics of AM receive window for NACKs with developers – Helped LTE model developers test changes [ns-3 Forum]
ICNC 15 - 12 BML 11/14/14 Simulation Network • Server sends data to UE • Wireless link bottleneck • UE stationary • No obstructions or noise sources • UE positioned so it would request CQI 8
ICNC 15 - 13 BML 11/14/14 Outline • Introduction • Background – LTE – ns-3 • Related Work • Approach • Results • Conclusion
ICNC 15 - 14 BML 11/14/14 VoIP t-Reordering • Adjusting t-Reordering has little impact on delay – AM experiences more delay but not by much AM UM
ICNC 15 - 15 BML 11/14/14 VoIP t-Reordering • Adjusting t-Reordering has little impact on MOS – Worst MOS is still good across all settings • Fix t-Reordering = 30ms AM UM
ICNC 15 - 16 BML 11/14/14 VoIP t-StatusProhibit • Adjusting t-StatusProhibit has greater impact • Lower values for timer better than higher in general • Fix t-StatusProhibit = 50ms AM AM
ICNC 15 - 17 BML 11/14/14 VoIP AM vs UM • Adjusted loss percent • VoIP over AM outperforms VoIP over UM until 20% loss – Same for both Atlantic and Pacific test
ICNC 15 - 18 BML 11/14/14 FTP t-Reordering • AM outperforms UM across t-Reordering • Large error ranges due to TCP RTO • Fix t-Reordering = 50ms AM UM
ICNC 15 - 19 BML 11/14/14 FTP t-StatusProhibit • Lower values for t-StatusProhibit are better • Large error ranges from TCP RTOs • Fix t-StatusProhibit = 75ms AM
ICNC 15 - 20 BML 11/14/14 FTP AM vs UM • FTP over AM has higher average throughput than FTP over UM • UM briefly better at 10% loss but has higher error range – Input gap lengths up to 30 for 5 – 25% and up to 100 for 30 – 50%
ICNC 15 - 21 BML 11/14/14 Conclusion • Added RLC AM NACKs to ns-3 LTE simulator • VoIP over AM has higher MOS until 20% loss – 5 – 20% loss rate AM avg 4.26, UM avg 4.15 – 25 – 35% loss rate AM avg 1.82, UM avg 3.7 • FTP over AM has higher average throughput – AM average throughput 1.21Mb/s, UM 0.83 Mb/s
ICNC 15 - 22 BML 11/14/14 Future Work • Video simulations with TCP • Test with other RLC layer settings – t-PollRetransmit timer – PollPDU and pollByte • Add support for RLC AM maximum retransmission radio link layer failure
ICNC 15 - 23 BML 11/14/14 Questions Brett Levasseur Mark Claypool, Robert Kinicki ICNC 2015 Impact of Acknowledgements on Application Performance in 4G LTE Networks
ICNC 15 - 24 BML 11/14/14 References [Baldo 11] Nicola Baldo, Marco Miozzo, Manuel Requena-Esteso, and Jaume Nin-Guerrero. An open source product-oriented lte network simulator based on ns-3. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, MSWiM '11, pages 293{298, New York, NY, USA, 2011. ACM. [Böhmer 11] Matthias Böhmer, Brent Hecht, Johannes Schöning, Antonio Krüger, and Gernot Bauer. Falling asleep with angry birds, facebook and kindle: a large scale study on mobile application usage. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, pages 47-56. ACM, 2011. [Cisco 13] Cisco. Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2013-2018. Technical report, Cisco, 2014. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns827/white paper c11-520862.pdf [Dahlman 11] Erik Dahlman, Stefan Parkvall, and Johan Sköld. 4G LTE/LTE-Advanced for Mobile Broadband. Academic Press, Oxford, 2011. [E-Model] Leandro Carvalho, Edjair Mota, Regeane Aguiar, Ana F Lima, Jose Neuman de Souza, and Anderson Barreto. An E- model implementation for speech quality evaluation in VoIP systems. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, volume 154. IEEE Computer Society, 2005. [Huang 13] Junxian Huang, Feng Qian, Yihua Guo, Yuanyuan Zhou, Qiang Xu, Z. Morley Mao, Subhabrata Sen, and Oliver Spatscheck. An In-depth Study of LTE: Eect of Network Protocol and Application Behavior on Performance. In Proceedings of the ACM SIG-COMM 2013 Conference on SIGCOMM, SIGCOMM '13, pages 363{374, New York, NY, USA, 2013. ACM. [ITU G.711] International Telecommunication Union. Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) of Vlice Frequencies. Technical Specification G.711, ITU-T, November 1988. https://www.itu.int/rec/dologin pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-G.711-198811-I!!PDFE& type=items. [Kawser 12] T. Mohammad Kawser, Nax Imtiaz Bin Hamid, Nayeemul Hasan, M. Shah Alam, and M. Musqur Rahman. Limiting HARQ Retransmissions in Downlink for Poor Radio Link in LTE. International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering, 2012.
ICNC 15 - 25 BML 11/14/14 References Cont [LTE RLC] 3GPP. 3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network; Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Radio Link Control (RLC) protocol specification (Release 8). Technical Specification 36.322v8.0.0, 3GPP, December 2007. http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/36322.htm. [LTE RRC] 3GPP. 3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network; Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Radio Resource Control (RRC) Protocol specification (Release 8). Technical Specification 36.331v8.10.0, 3GPP, march 2008. http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/36331.htm. [Makidis 07] Michael Makidis. Implementing and evaluating the RLC/AM protocol of the 3GPP specification. Master's thesis, Athens University of Economics and Business, 2007. [ns-3] https://www.nsnam.org/ [ns-3 Forum] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ns-3-users/CEfmMX3IRBw [ns-3 stats] https://www.nsnam.org/overview/statistics/ [Verizon] Verizon. IP Latency Statistics, April 2014. http://www.verizonenterprise.com/about/network/latency/. [Zyren 07] Jim Zyren. Overveiw of the 3GPP Long Term Evolution Physical Layer. Technical report, Freescale Semiconductor, 07 2007.
ICNC 15 - 26 BML 11/14/14 Backup Slides
ICNC 15 - 27 BML 11/14/14 CQI Choice • Wrote Android application to log requested CQI value on LTE networks • Collected data over 1 week from Feb – March 2014 • Collected in multiple locations
ICNC 15 - 28 BML 11/14/14 • Cumulative distribution of data • Collected 5,070 data points • Average CQI requested was 8 CQI Choice Cont.
ICNC 15 - 29 BML 11/14/14 Wireless Loss Cont • Creating fading loss file – Use goal % loss and set of input gap lengths to find state transition probabilities – Run Gilbert model
ICNC 15 - 30 BML 11/14/14 Simulating VoIP • ns-3 example code for application that sends data at a specified rate • Use G.711 encoding format to define size of packets and sending rate – 160 bytes data, 12 bytes RTP header, 8 bytes UDP header, 20 bytes IP header – Sending rate 64Kbps or about 1 packet every 20ms • Mean Opinion Score (MOS) used as performance metric – 1 – 5 point scale, 1 worst, 5 best – Calculated from delay and loss using E-Model [ITU G.711] [E-Model]
ICNC 15 - 31 BML 11/14/14 Simulating FTP • ns-3 bulk send application – Transmits as much data as possible over TCP – Default ns-3 congestion control algorithm is NewReno • Throughput used as performance metric
ICNC 15 - 32 BML 11/14/14 RLC UM • Receiving window used for reordering PDUs • Out of order PDU trigger timer t-Reordering 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 VR(UR),VR(UH) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 VR(UR) VR(UX),VR(UH)
ICNC 15 - 33 BML 11/14/14 Timer t-Reordering UM • Timer runs when PDUs arrive out of order • Gives MAC layer chance to recover lost data • Expiration moves VR(UR) up to first SN >= VR(UX) that is not received • Tradeoffs – Small timer, MAC retransmissions lost – Large timer, keeps lower bound of window stalled 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 VR(UR) VR(UX),VR(UH) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 VR(UR),VR(UH) LOST 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 VR(UR),VR(UH) Recovered
ICNC 15 - 34 BML 11/14/14 RLC AM • Receiving window used for reordering and ACK/NACK messaging 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 VR(R),VR(H),VR(MS) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 VR(R),VR(MS) VR(X),VR(H)
ICNC 15 - 35 BML 11/14/14 Timer t-Reordering AM • Gives MAC layer time before NACKing • t-Reordering starts when SN 5 arrives – ACK = 3 • While running SN 4 arrives – ACK = 3 • When timer expires VR(MS) is updated – ACK = 6, NACK = 3 • Tradeoffs – Small timer, NACK data that MAC can recover – Large timer, stalls NACKs 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 VR(R),VR(MS) VR(X),VR(H) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 VR(H),VR(MS) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 VR(X),VR(H) VR(R),VR(MS) VR(R)
ICNC 15 - 36 BML 11/14/14 Gilbert-Elliot Model • Two state machine for loss – X = 0 no loss – X = 1 loss • Transition probabilities define when to change states
ICNC 15 - 37 BML 11/14/14 Transitions • Gordo et al. shows how to take input of loss gaps and determine state transitions – Ok – # of burst losses of length k – a - # of TTIs – d - # of lost TTIs [Gordo 10]
ICNC 15 - 38 BML 11/14/14 LTE Network Layers • LTE wireless network has 6 layers (not all shown) • PHY – RLC layers carry user and network control data • LTE transmits collections of Physical Resource Blocks (PRB)s in Transport Blocks (TB) – A TB is the packet sent through the PHY layer – One TB can have multiple PRBs – Each PRB takes up some radio spectrum and time frame Application TCP UDP IP RLC MAC PHY

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Impact of Acknowledgements on Application Performance in 4G LTE Networks

  • 1. Brett Levasseur Mark Claypool, Robert Kinicki ICNC 2015 2/16/2015 Impact of Acknowledgements on Application Performance in 4G LTE Networks
  • 2. ICNC 15 - 2 BML 11/14/14 Network Growth • Worldwide Mobile networks in 2013 – ½ billion mobile devices added – 77% of this growth from smartphones – Mobile data traffic grew 81% – Mobile video traffic 51% of all mobile data • 4G in 2013 – 2.9% of all connections – Account for 30% of all mobile traffic – Predicted to be ½ of all connections in 2018 [Cisco 13]
  • 3. ICNC 15 - 3 BML 11/14/14 General Problem Statement • LTE responds to poor signal quality by decreasing throughput • LTE has multiple configuration parameters for wireless retransmissions • How do LTE retransmissions impact application performance? • What LTE retransmissions settings impact application performance? • Which LTE retransmission policies are preferred in different wireless loss conditions?
  • 4. ICNC 15 - 4 BML 11/14/14 Outline • Introduction • Background • Approach • Results • Conclusion
  • 5. ICNC 15 - 5 BML 11/14/14 LTE Retransmissions: MAC [Dahlman 11] 1ms TTI • Hybrid Automatic Request Reply (HARQ) • Data sent at time n, arrives at time n • 3ms taken to check if data arrived with errors • n+4 ACK/NACK sent back • n+8 if NACK, data can be retransmitted – Up to 3 retransmissions for downlink traffic
  • 6. ICNC 15 - 6 BML 11/14/14 LTE Retransmissions: RLC • Unacknowledged Mode – No retransmissions – Timer t-Reordering – wait before handing data up a layer for MAC layer to try recovery • Acknowledged Mode – Retransmissions – Timer t-Reordering – wait before requesting retransmission – Timer t-StatusProhibit – wait before sending RLC ACK/NACK message
  • 7. ICNC 15 - 7 BML 11/14/14 ns-3 • Open source packet level network simulator • Successor to ns-2 • Funded by National Science Foundation and the Planete group at INRIA Sophia Antipolis • 2009 - 2012 ns-3 downloaded 50,792 times • LTE/EPC Network Simulator (LENA) • Developed Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya [ns-3] [ns-3 stats] [Baldo 11]
  • 8. ICNC 15 - 8 BML 11/14/14 Related Work • Applications used in mobile networks – Böhmer et al. – Mobile apps mostly used for communication – Huang et al. – Majority of data over LTE uses TCP • HARQ – Kawser et al. – Found that MAC retransmissions could be limited to 3 or less as allowing more in poor signal quality conditions did not improve reception • RLC AM – Makidis – Examined TCP with RLC AM for VoIP and FTP but did not examine UM or MAC layer retransmissions
  • 9. ICNC 15 - 9 BML 11/14/14 Outline • Introduction • Background • Approach • Results • Conclusion
  • 10. ICNC 15 - 10 BML 11/14/14 Specific Problem Statement • How do MAC and RLC layer retransmission impact VoIP, FTP, Video – Delay/Loss/Throughput sensitive • How does adjusting RLC timer settings impact retransmissions and application performance • When is it better to use RLC AM or UM with varying loss rates at physical layer
  • 11. ICNC 15 - 11 BML 11/14/14 ns-3 LTE Modifications • LTE module for ns-3 did not support NACKs in AM STATUS message • Joined discussion forum to implement NACKs – Worked with LTE module developers and others – Provided code for (de-)serializing NACKs to developers – Discussed specifics of AM receive window for NACKs with developers – Helped LTE model developers test changes [ns-3 Forum]
  • 12. ICNC 15 - 12 BML 11/14/14 Simulation Network • Server sends data to UE • Wireless link bottleneck • UE stationary • No obstructions or noise sources • UE positioned so it would request CQI 8
  • 13. ICNC 15 - 13 BML 11/14/14 Outline • Introduction • Background – LTE – ns-3 • Related Work • Approach • Results • Conclusion
  • 14. ICNC 15 - 14 BML 11/14/14 VoIP t-Reordering • Adjusting t-Reordering has little impact on delay – AM experiences more delay but not by much AM UM
  • 15. ICNC 15 - 15 BML 11/14/14 VoIP t-Reordering • Adjusting t-Reordering has little impact on MOS – Worst MOS is still good across all settings • Fix t-Reordering = 30ms AM UM
  • 16. ICNC 15 - 16 BML 11/14/14 VoIP t-StatusProhibit • Adjusting t-StatusProhibit has greater impact • Lower values for timer better than higher in general • Fix t-StatusProhibit = 50ms AM AM
  • 17. ICNC 15 - 17 BML 11/14/14 VoIP AM vs UM • Adjusted loss percent • VoIP over AM outperforms VoIP over UM until 20% loss – Same for both Atlantic and Pacific test
  • 18. ICNC 15 - 18 BML 11/14/14 FTP t-Reordering • AM outperforms UM across t-Reordering • Large error ranges due to TCP RTO • Fix t-Reordering = 50ms AM UM
  • 19. ICNC 15 - 19 BML 11/14/14 FTP t-StatusProhibit • Lower values for t-StatusProhibit are better • Large error ranges from TCP RTOs • Fix t-StatusProhibit = 75ms AM
  • 20. ICNC 15 - 20 BML 11/14/14 FTP AM vs UM • FTP over AM has higher average throughput than FTP over UM • UM briefly better at 10% loss but has higher error range – Input gap lengths up to 30 for 5 – 25% and up to 100 for 30 – 50%
  • 21. ICNC 15 - 21 BML 11/14/14 Conclusion • Added RLC AM NACKs to ns-3 LTE simulator • VoIP over AM has higher MOS until 20% loss – 5 – 20% loss rate AM avg 4.26, UM avg 4.15 – 25 – 35% loss rate AM avg 1.82, UM avg 3.7 • FTP over AM has higher average throughput – AM average throughput 1.21Mb/s, UM 0.83 Mb/s
  • 22. ICNC 15 - 22 BML 11/14/14 Future Work • Video simulations with TCP • Test with other RLC layer settings – t-PollRetransmit timer – PollPDU and pollByte • Add support for RLC AM maximum retransmission radio link layer failure
  • 23. ICNC 15 - 23 BML 11/14/14 Questions Brett Levasseur Mark Claypool, Robert Kinicki ICNC 2015 Impact of Acknowledgements on Application Performance in 4G LTE Networks
  • 24. ICNC 15 - 24 BML 11/14/14 References [Baldo 11] Nicola Baldo, Marco Miozzo, Manuel Requena-Esteso, and Jaume Nin-Guerrero. An open source product-oriented lte network simulator based on ns-3. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, MSWiM '11, pages 293{298, New York, NY, USA, 2011. ACM. [Böhmer 11] Matthias Böhmer, Brent Hecht, Johannes Schöning, Antonio Krüger, and Gernot Bauer. Falling asleep with angry birds, facebook and kindle: a large scale study on mobile application usage. In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, pages 47-56. ACM, 2011. [Cisco 13] Cisco. Cisco Visual Networking Index: Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update, 2013-2018. Technical report, Cisco, 2014. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns827/white paper c11-520862.pdf [Dahlman 11] Erik Dahlman, Stefan Parkvall, and Johan Sköld. 4G LTE/LTE-Advanced for Mobile Broadband. Academic Press, Oxford, 2011. [E-Model] Leandro Carvalho, Edjair Mota, Regeane Aguiar, Ana F Lima, Jose Neuman de Souza, and Anderson Barreto. An E- model implementation for speech quality evaluation in VoIP systems. In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, volume 154. IEEE Computer Society, 2005. [Huang 13] Junxian Huang, Feng Qian, Yihua Guo, Yuanyuan Zhou, Qiang Xu, Z. Morley Mao, Subhabrata Sen, and Oliver Spatscheck. An In-depth Study of LTE: Eect of Network Protocol and Application Behavior on Performance. In Proceedings of the ACM SIG-COMM 2013 Conference on SIGCOMM, SIGCOMM '13, pages 363{374, New York, NY, USA, 2013. ACM. [ITU G.711] International Telecommunication Union. Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) of Vlice Frequencies. Technical Specification G.711, ITU-T, November 1988. https://www.itu.int/rec/dologin pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-G.711-198811-I!!PDFE& type=items. [Kawser 12] T. Mohammad Kawser, Nax Imtiaz Bin Hamid, Nayeemul Hasan, M. Shah Alam, and M. Musqur Rahman. Limiting HARQ Retransmissions in Downlink for Poor Radio Link in LTE. International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering, 2012.
  • 25. ICNC 15 - 25 BML 11/14/14 References Cont [LTE RLC] 3GPP. 3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network; Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Radio Link Control (RLC) protocol specification (Release 8). Technical Specification 36.322v8.0.0, 3GPP, December 2007. http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/36322.htm. [LTE RRC] 3GPP. 3rd Generation Partnership Project; Technical Specification Group Radio Access Network; Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA); Radio Resource Control (RRC) Protocol specification (Release 8). Technical Specification 36.331v8.10.0, 3GPP, march 2008. http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/html-info/36331.htm. [Makidis 07] Michael Makidis. Implementing and evaluating the RLC/AM protocol of the 3GPP specification. Master's thesis, Athens University of Economics and Business, 2007. [ns-3] https://www.nsnam.org/ [ns-3 Forum] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ns-3-users/CEfmMX3IRBw [ns-3 stats] https://www.nsnam.org/overview/statistics/ [Verizon] Verizon. IP Latency Statistics, April 2014. http://www.verizonenterprise.com/about/network/latency/. [Zyren 07] Jim Zyren. Overveiw of the 3GPP Long Term Evolution Physical Layer. Technical report, Freescale Semiconductor, 07 2007.
  • 26. ICNC 15 - 26 BML 11/14/14 Backup Slides
  • 27. ICNC 15 - 27 BML 11/14/14 CQI Choice • Wrote Android application to log requested CQI value on LTE networks • Collected data over 1 week from Feb – March 2014 • Collected in multiple locations
  • 28. ICNC 15 - 28 BML 11/14/14 • Cumulative distribution of data • Collected 5,070 data points • Average CQI requested was 8 CQI Choice Cont.
  • 29. ICNC 15 - 29 BML 11/14/14 Wireless Loss Cont • Creating fading loss file – Use goal % loss and set of input gap lengths to find state transition probabilities – Run Gilbert model
  • 30. ICNC 15 - 30 BML 11/14/14 Simulating VoIP • ns-3 example code for application that sends data at a specified rate • Use G.711 encoding format to define size of packets and sending rate – 160 bytes data, 12 bytes RTP header, 8 bytes UDP header, 20 bytes IP header – Sending rate 64Kbps or about 1 packet every 20ms • Mean Opinion Score (MOS) used as performance metric – 1 – 5 point scale, 1 worst, 5 best – Calculated from delay and loss using E-Model [ITU G.711] [E-Model]
  • 31. ICNC 15 - 31 BML 11/14/14 Simulating FTP • ns-3 bulk send application – Transmits as much data as possible over TCP – Default ns-3 congestion control algorithm is NewReno • Throughput used as performance metric
  • 32. ICNC 15 - 32 BML 11/14/14 RLC UM • Receiving window used for reordering PDUs • Out of order PDU trigger timer t-Reordering 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 VR(UR),VR(UH) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 VR(UR) VR(UX),VR(UH)
  • 33. ICNC 15 - 33 BML 11/14/14 Timer t-Reordering UM • Timer runs when PDUs arrive out of order • Gives MAC layer chance to recover lost data • Expiration moves VR(UR) up to first SN >= VR(UX) that is not received • Tradeoffs – Small timer, MAC retransmissions lost – Large timer, keeps lower bound of window stalled 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 VR(UR) VR(UX),VR(UH) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 VR(UR),VR(UH) LOST 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 VR(UR),VR(UH) Recovered
  • 34. ICNC 15 - 34 BML 11/14/14 RLC AM • Receiving window used for reordering and ACK/NACK messaging 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 VR(R),VR(H),VR(MS) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 VR(R),VR(MS) VR(X),VR(H)
  • 35. ICNC 15 - 35 BML 11/14/14 Timer t-Reordering AM • Gives MAC layer time before NACKing • t-Reordering starts when SN 5 arrives – ACK = 3 • While running SN 4 arrives – ACK = 3 • When timer expires VR(MS) is updated – ACK = 6, NACK = 3 • Tradeoffs – Small timer, NACK data that MAC can recover – Large timer, stalls NACKs 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 VR(R),VR(MS) VR(X),VR(H) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 VR(H),VR(MS) 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 VR(X),VR(H) VR(R),VR(MS) VR(R)
  • 36. ICNC 15 - 36 BML 11/14/14 Gilbert-Elliot Model • Two state machine for loss – X = 0 no loss – X = 1 loss • Transition probabilities define when to change states
  • 37. ICNC 15 - 37 BML 11/14/14 Transitions • Gordo et al. shows how to take input of loss gaps and determine state transitions – Ok – # of burst losses of length k – a - # of TTIs – d - # of lost TTIs [Gordo 10]
  • 38. ICNC 15 - 38 BML 11/14/14 LTE Network Layers • LTE wireless network has 6 layers (not all shown) • PHY – RLC layers carry user and network control data • LTE transmits collections of Physical Resource Blocks (PRB)s in Transport Blocks (TB) – A TB is the packet sent through the PHY layer – One TB can have multiple PRBs – Each PRB takes up some radio spectrum and time frame Application TCP UDP IP RLC MAC PHY