Wide area traffic: the failure of Poisson modeling
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
An activity-based mobility model and location management simulation framework
MSWiM '99 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Analysis of a metropolitan-area wireless network
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
On power-law relationships of the Internet topology
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Estimating the heavy tail index from scaling properties
Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability
WAP traffic: description and comparison to WWW traffic
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM international workshop on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
Analyzing the browse patterns of mobile clients
IMW '01 Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Internet Measurement
Characterizing Alert and Browse Services of Mobile Clients
ATEC '02 Proceedings of the General Track of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Characteristics of WAP traffic
Wireless Networks
Call admission control for CDMA mobile communications systems supporting multimedia services
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Mining call and mobility data to improve paging efficiency in cellular networks
Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Pervasive and Mobile Computing
Managing hotspot regions in wireless/cellular networks with partial coverage picocells
Proceedings of the 6th ACM international symposium on Mobility management and wireless access
Incentivizing the global wireless village
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Steps towards the extraction of vehicular mobility patterns from 3g signaling data
TMA'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis
DMME: A Distributed LTE Mobility Management Entity
Bell Labs Technical Journal
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The demand for cellular data networks is expected to increase with 3G and beyond technologies accompanied by high-bandwidth consumer services, such as wireless video and camera phones. User mobility affects quality of service, and makes capacity planning more difficult. This paper presents an analysis of user mobility patterns based on data traffic traces from a major regional CDMA2000 cellular network. We find low overall mobility in the network, power-law characteristics in user mobility profiles, and weak correlations between call activity and mobility levels for individual users. We also find that users concentrate their activity in a "home cell" with frequent shorter trips to other locations in the network. Based on the empirical findings, we develop and parameterize a model of cellular data user mobility and show its practical use in simulation.