Improving the dependability of mobile network applications is a complicated task for many reasons: Especially in Germany, the development of cellular infrastructure has not always been fast enough to keep up with the growing demand, resulting in many blind spots that cause communication outages. However, even when the infrastructure is available, the mobility of the users still poses a major challenge when it comes to the dependability of applications: As the user moves, the capacity of the channel can experience major changes. This can mean that applications like adjustable bitrate video streaming cannot infer future performance by analyzing past download rates, as it will only have old information about the data rate at a different location. In this work, we explore the use of 4G LTE for dependable communication in mobile vehicular scenarios. For this, we first look at the performance of LTE, especially in mobile environments, and how it has developed over time. We compare measurements performed several years apart and look at performance differences in urban and rural areas. We find that even though the continued development of the 4G standard has enabled better performance in theory, this has not always been reflected in real-life performance due to the slow development of infrastructure, especially along highways. We also explore the possibility of performance prediction in LTE networks without the need to perform active measurements. For this, we look at the relationship between the measured signal quality and the achievable data rates and latencies. We find that while there is a strong correlation between some of the signal quality indicators and the achievable data rates, the relationship between them is stochastic, i.e., a higher signal quality makes better performance more probable but does not guarantee it. We then use our empirical measurement results as a basis for a model that uses signal quality measurements to predict a throughput distribution. The resulting estimate of the obtainable throughput ...


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    Title :

    Quality of service and dependability of cellular vehicular communication networks


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    Publication date :

    2023-01-01



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    Theses


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    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    German



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    DDC:    000 / 629 / 801




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