LTE traffic analysis and application behavior characterization

Author

Foddis, Gianluca ; Garroppo, Rosario G. ; Giordano, Stefano ; Procissi, Gregorio ; Roma, Simone ; Topazzi, Simone

Author_Institution

Telecom Italia, Turin, Italy

fYear

2014

fDate

23-26 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

The deployment of LTE and the explosion of smart-phones and tablet market increase the requirements of mobile connectivity, together with a change in the users expectations in terms of bandwidth, access speed, reliability and QoS man-agement. In this new network scenario, traffic characterization and monitoring is of paramount relevance in order to prevent possible pitfalls during the deployment of new services. Hence, the paper presents the traffic analysis of a deployed eNodeB in a commercial network. The analysis is aimed at detecting traffic features at call and frame level, also accounting for the handset types.

Keywords

Long Term Evolution; mobility management (mobile radio); quality of service; telecommunication network reliability; telecommunication traffic; LTE deployment; LTE traffic analysis; QoS management; access speed; application behavior characterization; commercial network; eNodeB; frame level; handset types; mobile connectivity; network bandwidth; network reliability; smart-phones; tablet market; traffic characterization; traffic monitoring; user expectations; Facebook; IP networks; Long Term Evolution; Mobile communication; Postal services; Telephone sets; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2014 European Conference on

Conference_Location

Bologna

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EuCNC.2014.6882660

Filename

6882660