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This paper analyzes the mobile data traffic traces of a CDMA network and presents its unique characteristics compared to the wired Internet traffic. The data set was passively collected from the backbone of a commercial mobile service provider. Our study shows the highly uneven up/downlink traffic utilization nature in mobile data networks along with small packet sizes, so called the mice in the network. In addition, the relatively short session length reflects the user behavior in mobile data network. We have also observed a large amount of retransmissions on the backbone and analyzed the consequences of such phenomenon as well as the possible causes.
This research was supported by the MIC (Ministry of Information and Communication), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program supervised by the IITA (Institute of Information Technology Assessment) " (IITA-2005- C1090-0501-0018) by the Electrical and Computer Engineering Division at POSTECH under the BK21 program of the Ministry of Education, Korea.
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Won, Y.J., Park, BC., Hong, SC., Jung, K.B., Ju, HT., Hong, J.W. (2007). Measurement Analysis of Mobile Data Networks. In: Uhlig, S., Papagiannaki, K., Bonaventure, O. (eds) Passive and Active Network Measurement. PAM 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4427. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71617-4_23
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