Performance of TCP/IP over IS-2000 Based CDMA Radio Links

In this paper, we investigate the system performance of Internet protocol TCP/IP integrated with Radio Link Protocol (RLP) over IS-2000 Based CDMA (i.e., cdma2000) lossy radio links. We evaluate overall system performances with the RLP specified in IS-707 designed to be used with IS-95-A. In addition, we present RLP enhancements suitable for high-bandwidth cdma2000 system, especially for how to deal with large Physical Layer frame size and high Physical Layer Frame Error Rate (FER). We show significant performance improvement over i.i.d., frame error channels by subdividing Physical Layer frame to smaller Logical Transmission Units (LTUs) at Multiplex Sublayer.