Investigation of machine-to-machine traffic generated by mobile terminals

Feasible traffic model is one of the most important investigation topic for a network during its planning and performance evaluation. This paper studies traffic characteristics generated by machine-to-machine (M2M) mobile devices. In particular traffic volumes are estimated through practical measurements. It appeared, that within 24 hours, M2M traffic generated by a smartphone is significantly larger than voice traffic. Following deeper investigation, we found that measured M2M traffic is of self-similar nature with average self-similarity rate. A spectral density was obtained as the real component, where is determined by spectral Discrete Fourier transform (DFT).