Goodput and delay analysis of a radio link control protocol operating over a multicarrier DS-CDMA architecture

This work proposes an analytical model to investigate the behavior of a Radio Link Control (RLC) protocol on the forward link of a mobile radio system and to relate its performance to transmission design. As a reference case, a multicarrier DS-CDMA architecture employing Walsh and Quasi-Orthogonal channelization codes, similar to the current cdma2000 system, is considered. Jointly modelling the features of the data link layer and of the underlying physical channels, it is possible to identify the interaction between transmission parameters and the RLC protocol behavior. The latter is assessed by analysis, determining the RLC protocol goodput and the average delivery time suffered by a data unit transferred over the radio channel, when two different coding approaches are. adopted: namely, rate compatible punctured convolutional codes and code combining.