Radio Link Protocol Layer For CDMA 2000 Wireless Systems

In this paper the modeling of the RLP layer in CDMA2000 is presented, which uses the NAK based ARQ scheme for Random Error Channels. The RLP performs a partial link recovery through limited number of RLP frame transmission in case of frame error. In case when the RLP fails due to excessive frame error, the control is passed on to the higher (TCP) layer. The TCP layer provides the complete end-to-end recovery. Thus the reliable performance at the TCP/RLP is essential to maintain the required Quality of Service in the DS-CDMA wireless links. The modeling is done for the performance analysis of the system in terms of the throughput and the mean extra delays, which are calculated analytically and are compared with the results generated by the simulations. This paper studies the effect of the random errors over different types of RLP frame formats and also the performance of the NAK based ARQ mechanism used under these conditions. The simulation provides with the over all characteristics of the throughput and the mean extra delay in terms of realistic environment parameters like Eb/No and probability of packet error (PE), based on the channel conditions.