An overview of mobile device network activities: Characteristics of heterogeneous network interfaces
| Autor: | Sean Mead, Nagasaiamithkumar Veeramachaneni, Patrick Seeling |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Mobile processor
Mobile identification number Computer science Real-time computing Mobile computing Mobile Web 02 engineering and technology Network interface Public land mobile network Mobile station Wireless lan Mobile phone signal 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Mobile database Mobile search Mobile technology Radio access network business.industry IMT Advanced Mobile broadband 020206 networking & telecommunications Mobile ad hoc network Mobile telephony Small cell business Mobile data offloading Mobile device Heterogeneous network Computer network |
| Zdroj: | CCNC |
| DOI: | 10.1109/ccnc.2016.7444792 |
| Popis: | In this paper, we provide an overview and results of a long-term field study that captured network interface traffic on-device for 30 participating mobile devices. For the involved devices, the majority of applications installed are found to exhibit network activity, resulting in a high traffic variability. Bursts of data are observed for about 20 minute durations, with an overall average volume of 317 kByte in a two-minute time frame, while exhibiting an average inter-arrival of observed bursts of about 18 hours. We discover a significant dominance of the download direction of network traffic, to a majority on wireless LAN interfaces. We attribute this behavior to the common practice of mobile data offloading. We furthermore find a lack of distinct long-range dependence or self-similarity in the analyzed traffic, across interface types as well as directions. Our findings could impact the ongoing efforts to decrease networking battery impacts on mobile devices, such as through anticipatory resource optimization, as little correlation between directions and interfaces were observed in this data set. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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