A Study on Performance Comparison of Priority-based Queueing Scheme with Two Queueing Buffer Allocations in an UMTS Core Network Gateway

摘要

In this paper, a priority-based queueing scheme with two queueing buffer allocations, the DQB allocation and the OQD allocation, within an UMTS core network gateway is proposed to support differentiated services for packet forwarding among UMTS applications. In the proposed queuing scheme, two major modules, a priority-based enqueueing module and a weighted round robin dequeueing module, are used to handle enqueueing and dequeueing processes of UMTS packets. Many scenarios are simulated using the platform built on ns2. According to on the simulation results, each class UMTS application bases on its packet transmission priority to receive its corresponding packet forwarding performance; a differentiated service in packet forwarding among UMTS applications can be supported by the proposed queueing scheme with the two queueing buffer allocations within an UMTS core network gateway. For the DQB allocation, a packet forwarding starvation might be received by one UMTS application with the lowest packet transmission priority in a continuous traffic pattern; for the OQD allocation, there exists disorder packet transmissions among UMTS application.