Trade-Off between Cost and Goodput in Wireless: Replacing Transmitters with Coding
We study the cost of improving the goodput, or the useful data rate, to user in a wireless network. We measure the cost in terms of number of base stations, which is highly correlated to the energy cost as well as capital and operational costs of a network provider. We show that increasing the avail...
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| author | Klein, Thierry Soljanin, Emina Barros, João Kim, MinJi Medard, Muriel |
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| description | We study the cost of improving the goodput, or the useful data rate, to user in a wireless network. We measure the cost in terms of number of base stations, which is highly correlated to the energy cost as well as capital and operational costs of a network provider. We show that increasing the available bandwidth, or throughput, may not necessarily lead to increase in goodput, particularly in lossy wireless networks in which TCP does not perform well. As a result, much of the resources dedicated to the user may not translate to high goodput, resulting in an inefficient use of the network resources. We show that using protocols such as TCP/NC, which are more resilient to erasures and failures in the network, may lead to a goodput commensurate with the throughput dedicated to each user. By increasing goodput, users’ transactions are completed faster; thus, the resources dedicated to these users can be released to serve other requests or transactions. Consequently, we show that translating efficiently throughput to goodput may bring forth better connection to users while reducing the cost for the network providers. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1110042022-09-23T13:33:35Z Trade-Off between Cost and Goodput in Wireless: Replacing Transmitters with Coding Klein, Thierry Soljanin, Emina Barros, João Kim, MinJi Medard, Muriel Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Research Laboratory of Electronics Kim, MinJi Medard, Muriel We study the cost of improving the goodput, or the useful data rate, to user in a wireless network. We measure the cost in terms of number of base stations, which is highly correlated to the energy cost as well as capital and operational costs of a network provider. We show that increasing the available bandwidth, or throughput, may not necessarily lead to increase in goodput, particularly in lossy wireless networks in which TCP does not perform well. As a result, much of the resources dedicated to the user may not translate to high goodput, resulting in an inefficient use of the network resources. We show that using protocols such as TCP/NC, which are more resilient to erasures and failures in the network, may lead to a goodput commensurate with the throughput dedicated to each user. By increasing goodput, users’ transactions are completed faster; thus, the resources dedicated to these users can be released to serve other requests or transactions. Consequently, we show that translating efficiently throughput to goodput may bring forth better connection to users while reducing the cost for the network providers. 2017-08-23T18:38:34Z 2017-08-23T18:38:34Z 2017-08-23 2013-09 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 978-3-319-04276-3 978-3-319-04277-0 1867-8211 1867-822X http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111004 Kim M. et al. "Trade-Off between Cost and Goodput in Wireless: Replacing Transmitters with Coding." Pesch D., Timm-Giel A., Calvo R.A., Wenning BL., and Pentikousis K., editors. Mobile Networks and Management. MONAMI 2013. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 125 (2014): 1-14 © 2013 Institute for Computer Science, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (ICST) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4059-407X en_US https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-04277-0_1 Mobile Networks and Management Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Springer-Verlag arXiv |
| spellingShingle | Klein, Thierry Soljanin, Emina Barros, João Kim, MinJi Medard, Muriel Trade-Off between Cost and Goodput in Wireless: Replacing Transmitters with Coding |
| title | Trade-Off between Cost and Goodput in Wireless: Replacing Transmitters with Coding |
| title_full | Trade-Off between Cost and Goodput in Wireless: Replacing Transmitters with Coding |
| title_fullStr | Trade-Off between Cost and Goodput in Wireless: Replacing Transmitters with Coding |
| title_full_unstemmed | Trade-Off between Cost and Goodput in Wireless: Replacing Transmitters with Coding |
| title_short | Trade-Off between Cost and Goodput in Wireless: Replacing Transmitters with Coding |
| title_sort | trade off between cost and goodput in wireless replacing transmitters with coding |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/111004 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4059-407X |
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