Traffic shaping measurements and analyses in 3G network

Authors:
Rossitza Goleva;Dimitar Atamian;Seferin Mirtchev;Desislava Dimitrova;Lybina Grigorova
Affiliations:
Technical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria;Technical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria;Technical University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria;University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland;Vivacom JSCO, Sofia, Bulgaria
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on High performance mobile opportunistic systems
Year:
2013

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Abstract

Traffic shaping effect may have significant impact on end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning. Therefore, it should be carefully studied in order to allow the creation of appropriate traffic models to be used for simulations. First, to demonstrate the traffic shaping effect, we present statistical analyses on real-time measurements of diverse traffic sources (voice and video over IP) in a 3G network. By comparing the statistical distributions of the packet inter-arrival times for both the forward and backward direction, we can demonstrate directly the end-to-end traffic shaping effect introduced by the IP core network. Hence, we argue that distributed QoS management approach is needed. Additionally, we give the mean, variance, mean standard deviation, skewness, and kurtosis of the inter-arrival times, which can be used as input for simulation models. The accurate validation of the probability distributions is ensured by the Wolfram Mathematica and Crystal Ball statistical tools. Second, for the same set of measurements, we propose and defend with evaluations the use of the gamma distribution as best fitting function to traffic dynamics. Our proposal is applicable for traffic environments found in delay-tolerant networks, opportunistic networks, Internet of Things, sensor networks etc.