Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 2014 European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Bologna
DOI :
10.1109/EuCNC.2014.6882660
