An open dataset of operational mobile networksShow others and affiliations
2020 (English)In: MobiWac 2020 - Proceedings of the 18th ACM Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020, p. 83-90Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Mobile networks have become ubiquitous and the primary means to access the Internet, and the traffic they generate has rapidly increased over the last years. The technology and service diversity in mobile networks call for extensive and accurate measurements to ensure the proper functioning of the networks and rapidly spot impairments. However, the measurement of mobile networks is complicated by their scale, and, thus, expensive, especially due to the diversity of deployments, technologies, and web services. In this paper, we present and provide access to the largest open international mobile network dataset collected using the MONROE platform spanning six countries, 27 mobile network operators, and 120 measurement nodes. We use them to run measurements targeting several web services from January 2018 to December 2019, collecting millions of TCP and UDP flows using these commercial mobile networks. We illustrate the data collection platforms and describe some of the main experiments. Besides a high-level overview of the dataset, we provide two practical use cases. First, we show how our data can be used as a proxy for web service performance. Second, we study the content delivery infrastructure of Facebook.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2020. p. 83-90
Keywords [en]
mobile networks, open dataset, quality of service, web services, Cellular radio systems, Mobile telecommunication systems, Websites, Wireless networks, Accurate measurement, Content delivery, Data collection, Measurement nodes, Mobile network operators, Practical use, Service performance, UDP flows
National Category
Computer Sciences Communication Systems
Research subject
Computer Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-83123DOI: 10.1145/3416012.3424619Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85097651089ISBN: 9781450381192 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-83123DiVA, id: diva2:1530090
Conference
18th ACM Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access, MobiWac 2020, 16 November 2020 through 20 November 2020
2021-02-212021-02-212021-04-30Bibliographically approved