On the detection of signaling DoS attacks on 3G/WiMax wireless networks
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Anatomizing application performance differences on smartphones
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Profiling users in a 3g network using hourglass co-clustering
Proceedings of the sixteenth annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Characterizing radio resource allocation for 3G networks
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
A first look at traffic on smartphones
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Profiling resource usage for mobile applications: a cross-layer approach
MobiSys '11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
TOP: Tail Optimization Protocol For Cellular Radio Resource Allocation
ICNP '10 Proceedings of the The 18th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols
Identifying diverse usage behaviors of smartphone apps
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Micro- and macroscopic analysis of RTT variability in GPRS and UMTS networks
NETWORKING'06 Proceedings of the 5th international IFIP-TC6 conference on Networking Technologies, Services, and Protocols; Performance of Computer and Communication Networks; Mobile and Wireless Communications Systems
A panoramic view of 3g data/control-plane traffic: mobile device perspective
IFIP'12 Proceedings of the 11th international IFIP TC 6 conference on Networking - Volume Part I
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In 3G networks, when user applications of mobile subscribers send or receive data-plane traffic, control-plane signaling messages will be triggered to initiate or release radio resources for the data transfer. Such signaling messages can increase the processing and transmission overheads of the 3G cellular network infrastructure, and this in turns degrades the performance experience of mobile subscribers. Thus, understanding the signaling overhead of a 3G network becomes critical. In this paper, we conduct the first comprehensive measurement study of the signaling overhead of a city-wide 3G operational network in China. Our main contributions are two-fold. First, based on real cellular traces collected from both data and control planes, we validate that by simply monitoring data-plane packets, we can accurately profile the control-plane signaling overhead due to the initiations of radio resources for data transfer. Second, using data-plane signaling profiling, we characterize the signaling overhead due to common transport protocols and network applications. Our measurement methodology and results presented in this paper would be useful for network operators to better understand how data-plane traffic patterns influence the control-plane signaling overhead of a 3G network.