Large-scale measurement and characterization of cellular machine-to-machine traffic

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1960-1973

  Shafiq, M Zubair ^a   Ji, Lusheng ^b   Liu, Alex X ^c   Pang, Jeffrey ^b   Wang, Jia ^b  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cellular networks; machine to machine (M2M); measurement; mobility; network performance; performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR NETWORK; CELLULAR NETWORK DESIGNS; LARGE-SCALE MEASUREMENT; MACHINE TO MACHINES; MACHINE-TO-MACHINE (M2M); MACHINE-TO-MACHINE COMMUNICATIONS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; SPECTRUM ALLOCATION;

AUTOMATION; CARRIER MOBILITY; MEASUREMENTS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

POINT OF SALE TERMINALS;

EID: 84891600835     PISSN: 10636692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNET.2013.2256431     Document Type: Article

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