On Traffic Characteristics of a Broadband Wireless Internet Access

Author

Pries, Rastin ; Wamser, Florian ; Staehle, Dirk ; Heck, Klaus ; Tran-Gia, Phuoc

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

1-3 July 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

Internet traffic measurements and traffic characterization are essential for managing and optimizing network infrastructures. The increasing number of wireless Internet users and the changing application demands require consecutive traffic measurements. Therefore, we have performed measurements of home users at a broadband wireless access service provider in order to reflect the current traffic characteristics. In this paper, we present the results of these measurements like application distributions as well as changing traffic characteristics caused by user demands and new services. The results could be used by a network service provider to optimize its network performance in order to give quality of service (QoS) guarantees for home users in its fixed wireless network.

Keywords

Internet; broadband networks; computer network management; quality of service; radio access networks; telecommunication traffic; Internet traffic measurements; application distributions; broadband wireless Internet access; network infrastructure management; quality of service; traffic characteristics; Bandwidth; Computer network management; Computer science; IP networks; Internet; Monitoring; Performance evaluation; Quality of service; Streaming media; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Next Generation Internet Networks, 2009. NGI '09

Conference_Location

Aveiro

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4244-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4245-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NGI.2009.5175772

Filename

5175772