Control-plane Traffic Analysis of UMTS Network

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10.2991/icismme-15.2015.215How to use a DOI?

Keywords

3G; control plane; traffic monitoring and analysis; user behavior.

Abstract

In 3G networks, when user applications send or receive data, control-plane signaling messages will be triggered to initiate or release radio resources. However, massive signaling messages will increase the processing and transmission overheads of the 3G cellular network infrastructure, and this in turns degrades the performance experience of mobile subscribers. Thus, traffic monitoring and analysis are emerging as an attractive solution for network management and optimization. In this paper, we present a traffic monitoring and analysis system called UMAS for 3G network. The system can collect and process the control-plane packets in UMTS core network efficiently. Moreover, we conduct an in-depth analysis of user’s radio resources usage and online preferences based on signaling records produced by UMAS. The results from the analysis illustrate the characteristics of radio resources overheads and also identify power-law and heavy-tailed properties in user online preferences. Our study can provide insights for network operators to resource allocation for control planes of 3G network.

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© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yi Zhang
AU  - Fang Liu
AU  - Qiujian Lv
AU  - Huan Wang
PY  - 2015/07
DA  - 2015/07
TI  - Control-plane Traffic Analysis of UMTS Network
BT  - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Information Sciences, Machinery, Materials and Energy
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1018
EP  - 1024
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icismme-15.2015.215
DO  - 10.2991/icismme-15.2015.215
ID  - Zhang2015/07
ER  -