Paper Info
Title
A measurement study on the application-level performance of LTE
Abstract
Many of todayu0027s Internet applications such as mobile web browsing and live video streaming are delay and throughput sensitive. In face of the great success of cellular networking, especially with the advent of the high-speed LTE access tech-nology, it is noteworthy that there is little consensus on the performance experienced by applications running over cellular networks. In this paper we present application-level performance results measured in a major commercial LTE network. We replicate measurements in a wired access network to provide a reference for the wireless results. We investigate the performance of common web application scenarios over LTE. In addition, we deploy controlled measurement nodes to discover transparent middleboxes in the LTE network. The introduction of middle-boxes to LTE results in a faster connection establishment on the client side and notable performance gain for HTTP. However, this improvement comes at the price of ambiguity as some middlebox operations may introduce unnecessary timeouts. Further, we pinpoint LTE specific delays that arise from network signalling, energy saving algorithms and Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ). Our analysis provides insights into the interaction between transport protocols and LTE.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/IFIPNetworking.2014.6857113
Networking
Keywords
Field
DocType
Internet,Long Term Evolution,automatic repeat request,cellular radio,mobile computing,telecommunication signalling,transport protocols,video streaming,HARQ,HTTP,Internet applications,application-level performance,cellular networking,controlled measurement nodes,delay sensitive,energy saving algorithms,high-speed LTE access technology,hybrid automatic repeat request,live video streaming,mobile Web browsing,network signalling,performance gain,throughput sensitive,transparent middlebox discovery,transport protocols,wired access network,4G,LTE,performance evaluation
Hybrid automatic repeat request,Client-side,Wireless,Middlebox,Computer science,Computer network,Cellular network,Mobile Web,Access network,The Internet
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
23
1.04
11
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nico Becker1352.19
Rizk, A.2412.16
Markus Fidler326815.13