TY - CONF T1 - Performance Evaluation of UMTS for Mobile Internet Access T2 - 12th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2004), Volendam, The Netherlands Y1 - 2004 A1 - Christos Bouras A1 - Antonios Alexiou A1 - Vaggelis Igglesis KW - UMTS AB - UMTS constitutes the third generation of cellular wireless networks which aims to provide high-speed data access along with real time voice calls (Holma & Toskala, 2001). Wireless data is one of the major boosters of wireless communications and one of the main challenges of next generation standards (Chaudhury & Mohr, 1999). It can provide maximum data-rates ranging from 64kb/s to 2Mb/s in different environmental types. UMTS is designed to provide access to the existing Internet services as well as to UMTS specific services. It will augment the existing capabilities of 2G mobile networks and GPRS, and one often envisaged strategy is to offer a richer set of multimedia services. JF - 12th Annual Meeting of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2004), Volendam, The Netherlands ER -