A study of the short message service of a nationwide cellular network

Authors:
Petros Zerfos;Xiaoqiao Meng;Starsky H.Y Wong;Vidyut Samanta;Songwu Lu
Affiliations:
Deutsche Telekom Laboratories, Berlin, Germany;UCLA, Los Angeles, CA;UCLA, Los Angeles, CA;UCLA, Los Angeles, CA;UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Year:
2006

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Abstract

In recent years, cellular networks have experienced an astronomical increase in the use of Short Message Service (SMS), making it a popular communication means for inter-personal as well as content provider-to-person usage. Yet little is known about the traffic and message user behavior in real SMS systems. In this paper, we present a measurement study of SMS based on traces collected from a nationwide cellular carrier during a three-week period. We characterize message traffic at both the message level and the conversation thread level. We also examine the "store-and-forward" mechanism of SMS and present initial measurements on how messages are actually delivered.