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Mobile Network Performance during the COVID-19 Outbreak from a Testbed Perspective
Karlstad University, Faculty of Health, Science and Technology (starting 2013), Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (from 2013). (DISCO)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2765-7873
Western University, CAN.
Simula Research Laboratory, NOR.
University of Oslo and SimulaMet, NOR.
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2020 (English)Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

COVID-19 has changed our lives and continues to have a drastic impact. It forces us to impose restrictive social distancing measures and leads us to rely more on the Internet. Mobile networks become one of the major means to access the Internet for most of us. We investigate the performance of 9 mobile networks in Europe around the time when restrictions were imposed, considering web QoE, throughput, RTT, and signal coverage. Our results show countries’ mobile networks are impacted by COVID-19 (as high as 46 % increase in page load time) at different times based on the outbreak timelines in these countries. Moreover, we find that operators responded properly and the network performance is back to the pre-COVID-19 times.

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IEEE, 2020. p. 110-117
Keywords [en]
COVID-19, mobile network performance, web QoE, throughput, RTT, signal coverage
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Communication Systems
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Computer Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-79204DOI: 10.1145/3411276.3412194ISI: 2-s2.0-85093362783OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-79204DiVA, id: diva2:1456479
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14th International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation Character- ization (WiNTECH’20) September 2020
Available from: 2020-08-05 Created: 2020-08-05 Last updated: 2021-02-21Bibliographically approved

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