A first look at traffic on smartphones

By Hossein Falaki, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Ratul Mahajan, Srikanth Kandula, Deborah Estrin. ACM/SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2010

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

AppScanner: Automatic Fingerprinting of Smartphone Apps from Encrypted Network Traffic (2016, background): “[21] observed that 95% of packets on smartphones “are received or transmitted within 4.”
Next generation cloud computing: New trends and research directions (2017, background): “This is becoming popular for smaller mobile devices, such as smartphones [23,24], which on an average have less than a 25% per hour of usage [25,26].”
Understanding Mobile Traffic Patterns of Large Scale Cellular Towers in Urban Environment (2015, background): “Another type of data is the device-level metric obtained from mobile devices, such as device and application usage[8, 21], network access bandwidth[10], energy computation[11], personal GPS locations[28], etc.”
A Survey of Green Mobile Networks: Opportunities and Challenges (2011, background): “For instance, the work in [58] focuses on the pattern of traffic load and energy consumption of 3G smartphones in order to profile the relationships among smartphone traffic, contents, energy consumption and radio power”
A Survey on Mobile Crowdsensing Systems: Challenges, Solutions, and Opportunities (2019, background): “Nowadays, mobile devices are essential for our daily activities, including business, communication, and entertainment [1], [2].”
A close examination of performance and power characteristics of 4G LTE networks (2012, background): “Recent work [22] also investigates impact of traffic patterns on radio power management policy.”
Exploring mobile/WiFi handover with multipath TCP (2012, background): “We consider two representative scenarios [3].”
A measurement-based study of MultiPath TCP performance over wireless networks (2013, background): “Although it has been reported that most Web traffic to mobile devices are flows smaller than 1 MB to 2 MB [6], online video streaming contributes the majority of the traffic to mobile devices [5], which has long been thought of as downloading a large single object from the server.”
Mobile Data Offloading: How Much Can WiFi Deliver? (2013, background): “It indicates that at any time, about 70% of users stay in a WiFi coverage area.”