[129084] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP characteristics for 3G and WiFi links
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Barnes)
Thu Aug 26 12:32:58 2010
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimcqxY1uLSwZS=brv6d60FJ3x5zTYFUSaHwS9HO@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:32:47 -0400
From: Richard Barnes <richard.barnes@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Migault <mglt.biz@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 6:26 AM, Daniel Migault <mglt.biz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are testing protocols on our lab platform and we would like to simulat=
e
> communication 2 types of communication :
> =A0 - From terminals to service platform using a 3G (HSPA / HSPA+) Access
> connection
> =A0 - From terminal to service platform using a WiFi Access connection
>
> We are using dummyNet to simulate the links so we are interested =A0in IP
> characteristics layers for Packet loss Rate, bandwidth and latency. Value=
s
> depends on multiple factors, but we would like to know what mean values a=
re
> considered when services are deployed.
>
> Currently we are considering the following values. Packet Lost Rate for L=
2
> seems 7% for Wifi and 5% for 3G. We are wondering how L3 is affected?
>
>
> Parameter =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 | Wifi (802.11a/g) | 3G (HSDPA)
> Latency =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0100 ms =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0=
60 ms
> Bandwidth =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 5 Mbps =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 3 Mb=
ps
> Packet Lost Rate =A0 XXX =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 XXX
>
>
> Any comment links will be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
> --
> Daniel Migault
> Orange Labs / Security Lab
> +33 (0) 1 45 29 60 52
> +33 (0) 6 70 72 69 58
>
