Methods for estimating RRC state of mobile terminals in push servers

Author

Onishi, Takeo ; Shiroshima, Takahiro

Author_Institution

Cloud Syst. Res. Labs., NEC Corp., Kanagawa, Japan

fYear

2015

fDate

9-12 Jan. 2015

Firstpage

164

Lastpage

165

Abstract

Push notification services send messages from servers in the cloud to applications on smartphones at any time to notify the applications or users of new or updated information. These services are characterized by frequent background traffic without user operations that affects the energy consumption of the mobile terminal and cellular network load. These factors are related to the RRC (radio resource control) state. If a server takes the RRC state of the mobile terminals into account and controls the timings for sending messages, the energy consumption and cellular network load can be reduced. In this paper, we propose methods for estimating the RRC state in push servers for controlling messaging timings. The evaluation result shows our method achieved an estimation accuracy of 70 % to 99 % depending on the server load for the estimation.

Keywords

mobile communication; RRC; RRC state estimation; cellular network load; energy consumption; frequent background traffic; mobile terminal; mobile terminals; push notification services; push servers; radio resource control state; smartphone application; Data transfer; Energy consumption; Estimation error; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Servers; RRC state; estimation; push notification;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), 2015 12th Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

ISSN

2331-9860

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-6389-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCNC.2015.7157969

Filename

7157969