The mobile data explosion and new approaches to network planning and monetization

Author

Thanawala, Rati ; El-Sayed, Mohamed ; Morawski, Tom ; Mukhopadhyay, Amit ; Zhao, John ; Urrutia-Valdés, Carlos

Author_Institution

Bell Labs. Network Planning, Alcatel-Lucent Technol., Murray Hill, NJ, USA

fYear

2010

fDate

27-30 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The rapid introduction of new mobile data services presents many challenges to wireless service providers. Unlike voice services, whose traffic characteristics are well understood, new data services are far more volatile and their demand on network resources is harder to predict. Data volumes are exploding and impacting not only the ability of the network to support such traffic but are also driving down operator´s gross margins. Bell Labs has done analysis around some key solutions to deal with this situation. Insights gained through this work will be shared in this paper.

Keywords

mobile radio; telecommunication network planning; telecommunication services; telecommunication traffic; data volumes; mobile data explosion; network monetization; network planning; network resources; operator gross margins; traffic characteristics; voice services; wireless service providers; Capacity planning; Forecasting; Internet; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Monitoring; Quality of service; QoS; capacity planning; forecasting; mobile devices; mobile networks; mobile-data; small cells; traffic management; traffic shaping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Telecommunications Network Strategy and Planning Symposium (NETWORKS), 2010 14th International

Conference_Location

Warsaw

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6704-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6705-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NETWKS.2010.5624926

Filename

5624926