A flexible approach to mobile telephone traffic mass measurements and analysis

Author

Tatai, Péter ; Marosi, Gyula ; Osváth, Láiszló

Author_Institution

Dept. of Telecommun. & Telematics, Budapest Univ. of Technol. & Econ., Hungary

Volume

2

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1281

Abstract

The present article describes the design principles and the main features of a traffic mass measurement and analysis system that has been developed at the TSP Lab and is already in everyday use at a large GSM network operator since 1999 for 24 hears a day, 7 days a week. On one hand, it can collect a large amount of signaling and call data and, on the other hand, it provides a near real time tracing of mobile calls and their detailed online analysis. The system is based on a new soft testing principle and distributed computing. Therefore if has been able to cope with the large increase in traffic to be handled as well as with the continuous demand for new services

Keywords

cellular radio; computerised monitoring; distributed processing; open systems; telecommunication computing; telecommunication signalling; telephone traffic recording; SS7 signalling; call data collection; continuous new services demand; design principles; distributed computing; flexible approach; large GSM network; mobile calls; mobile telephone traffic; near real time tracing; online analysis; online archiving; open system structure; real time call tracing; soft testing principle; traffic mass measurement; Communication switching; Communication system traffic control; GSM; Probes; Signal analysis; Software testing; Switches; System testing; Telecommunication traffic; Telephony;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2001. IMTC 2001. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE

Conference_Location

Budapest

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6646-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2001.928281

Filename

928281