Internet Web servers: workload characterization and performance implications
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Generating representative Web workloads for network and server performance evaluation
SIGMETRICS '98/PERFORMANCE '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
On the scale and performance of cooperative Web proxy caching
Proceedings of the seventeenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
BLT: Bi-layer tracing of HTTP and TCP&slash;IP
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
What TCP/IP protocol headers can tell us about the web
Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
An Empirical Model of HTTP Network Traffic
INFOCOM '97 Proceedings of the INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution
A Behavioral Model of Web Traffic
ICNP '99 Proceedings of the Seventh Annual International Conference on Network Protocols
Characteristics of WWW Client-based Traces
Characteristics of WWW Client-based Traces
Anatomizing application performance differences on smartphones
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
CODES/ISSS '10 Proceedings of the eighth IEEE/ACM/IFIP international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
Characterizing and modeling internet traffic dynamics of cellular devices
Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Profiling resource usage for mobile applications: a cross-layer approach
MobiSys '11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Over the top video: the gorilla in cellular networks
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Identifying diverse usage behaviors of smartphone apps
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
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Because of rapidly growing subscriber populations, advances in cellular communication technology, increasingly capable user terminals, and the expanding range of mobile applications, cellular networks have experienced a significant increase in data traffic, the dominant part of which is carried by the http protocol. Understanding the characteristics of this traffic is important for network design, traffic modeling, resource planning and network control. In this study we present a comprehensive characterization study of mobile http-based traffic using packet level traces collected in a large cellular network. We analyze the traffic using metrics at packet level, flow level and session level. For each metric, we conduct a comparison between traffic from different applications, as well as comparison to traffic in a wired network. Finally, we discuss the implications of our findings for better resource utilization in cellular infrastructures.