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With the significant increase in cellular data usage, it is critical to better understand the characteristics and behavior of cellular data networks. With both laboratory experiments and crowd-sourcing measurements, we investigated the characteristics of the cellular data networks for the three mobile ISPs in Singapore. We found that i) the transmitted packets tend to arrive in bursts; ii) there can be large variations in the instantaneous throughput over a short period of time; iii) large separate downlink buffers are typically deployed, which can cause high latency when the throughput is low; and iv) the networks typically implement some form of fair queuing policy.
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Xu, Y., Wang, Z., Leong, W.K., Leong, B. (2014). An End-to-End Measurement Study of Modern Cellular Data Networks. In: Faloutsos, M., Kuzmanovic, A. (eds) Passive and Active Measurement. PAM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8362. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04918-2_4
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