Mobilaus duomenų perdavimo (GPRS) ir vietinių belaidžių tinklų (WLAN) integracijos ir sąveikos tyrimas

Abstract

Nowadays the popularity of WLANs is growing very rapidly. The basic solution for the connection of WLAN users to the global internet network is using leased lines or the other standard data transmission networks. But there may occur situations, when the only network for the data transmission we can use for the connection to the internet, is GSM network. In such a case, we are proposing to connect the users of WAN/WLAN networks by using GSM network, which has complete coverage in the territory of Lithuania. To guarantee the sufficient data transfer rate, we use bonding of several parallel GPRS/EDGE/UMTS channels into one total channel. In such a way we increase the reliability and data transfer rate of the total mobile data transmission channel. The parallel channels are bonded into one total channel by using either the hardware (Cisco) routers, or the software routers, configured using network administration tools of Linux operating system. In this work we give all the tools and configuration settings necessary for the realization of such a system. The results of QoS characteristics measurements are given too. We measure packet delay and data transfer rate. The majority of measurements are made by using several parallel GPRS channels because of wide spread GPRS technologies. The key accent of the system is free selection of the physical layer (OSI model) of the parallel channel. So we can bond either several GPRS, or EDGE, or UMTS channels.