RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Not all Apps are created equal: analysis of spatiotemporal heterogeneity in nationwide mobile service usage
A1 Márquez Colás, María Cristina
A1 Gramaglia, Marco
A1 Fiore, Marco
A1 Banchs Roca, Albert
A1 Ziemlicki, Cezary
A1 Smoreda, Zbigniew
AB We investigate how individual mobile services are consumed at a national scale, by studying data collected in a 3G/4G mobile network deployed over a major European country. Through correlation and clustering analyses, our study unveils a strong heterogeneity in the demand for different mobile services, both in time and space. In particular, we show that: (i) somehow surprisingly, almost all considered services exhibit quite different temporal usage patterns; (ii) in contrast to such temporal behavior, spatial patterns are fairly uniform across all services; (iii) when looking at usage patterns at different locations, the average traffic volume per user is dependent on the urbanization level, yet its temporal dynamics are not. Our findings do not only have sociological implications, but are also relevant to the orchestration of network resources.
PB Association For Computing Machinery (ACM)
SN 978-1-4503-5422-6
YR 2017
FD 2017
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/27944
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/27944
LA eng
NO Proceeding of: 13th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT '17)
NO This research work has been performed in the framework of the H2020-ICT-2014-2 project 5G NORMA (Grant Agreement No. 671584).
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RD 1 sept. 2024