Understanding mobile traffic patterns of large scale cellular towers in urban environment

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC

Volumn 2015-October, Issue , 2015, Pages 225-238

  Wang, Huandong ^a   Xu, Fengli ^a   Li, Yong ^a   Zhang, Pengyu ^b   Jin, Depeng ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Geographical location; Measurement study; Mobile data traffic; Traffic patterns

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; ECOLOGY; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTERNET; INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS; LOCATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TOWERS; URBAN PLANNING;

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATIONS; MEASUREMENT STUDY; METROPOLITAN CITIES; MOBILE DATA TRAFFIC; MODELING METHODOLOGY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL INFORMATION; TRAFFIC MEASUREMENTS; TRAFFIC PATTERN;

URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 84954158898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2815675.2815680     Document Type: Conference Paper

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