Performance Analysis of Transport Layer Congestion on 5G Systems

Abstract

The development of 5G networks is still ongoing. 5G networks connect data, applications, transport systems and people in smart networked communication environments. It will require various protocols to support its multiples features. One of these includes the transport protocol, which is designed to provide high-speed data rates up to 400Gbps. In this paper, an analysis of the performance of transport layer congestion on 5G systems using the two types of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) traffic is presented. The performance of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) protocol using metrics such as user and cell throughput, round trip time, delay, and Physical Resource Block (PRB) utilization was specifically analyzed. The simulation study shows the differences between File transfer protocol with TCP slow start and File transfer protocol without TCP slow start.