Paper Info
Title
Characterization of 3G Data-Plane Traffic and Application towards Centralized Control and Management for Software Defined Networking
Abstract
With the wide deployment of 3G/4G cellular data networks there is a tremendous growth of mobile Internet access worldwide. We conduct a detailed measurement study about user behaviors, application usage and location patterns of users. We present a methodology that correlates different network attributes and user information together. For user behaviors we classify all users into four groups by time division and investigate the behaviors of different types of users. For example, we find that midnight users consume tremendous network bandwidth. We categorize applications into several groups and provide insights of each type of application usage about up/down flow user numbers and user request times. We also analyze the location information of users that reveal the relationship between network usages with user mobility. Our study successfully provides network operational insights with the details of network usage or the user remarkable behaviors that can help network planners and operators to plan and adaptively adjust network capacity assignment and flow or application management. Most importantly it will help service providers to reduce their operating cost and offer more flexible and variety of services to meet the needs of today's mobile clients without the need of increasing capacity in congested areas. Finally, our analysis will enable much more efficient routing and resource allocation management applications in the recent endeavor for software defined networking that will put such responsibility into the logically centralized controllers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/BigData.Congress.2013.44
BigData Congress
Keywords
Field
DocType
3g data-plane traffic characterization,user location patterns,different network attribute,time division,centralized control plane,application usage,network usages,user behaviors,network planner,3g-4g cellular data networks,software defined networking,centralized control,routing management applications,midnight user,3g networks,mobile internet access,resource allocation,data-plane traffic,flow management,cellular data network,3g mobile communication,network capacity assignment,internet,network usage,flow user number,resource allocation management applications,network attributes,centralized management,user request times,software defined networking (sdn),network operational insight,user behavior,telecommunication network routing,data-plane,up-down flow user numbers,user location information,4g mobile communication,app usage behaviors,tremendous network bandwidth
Application lifecycle management,Computer science,Mobile station,Public land mobile network,Computer network,Service provider,User information,Resource allocation,Software-defined networking,The Internet
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2379-7703
978-0-7695-5006-0
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.66
16
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qian Long15710.30
Bin Wu259248.75
Renbo Zhang370.66
Weiyu Zhang48712.67
Min Luo5131.53