For the emerging applications such as Google Talk, Facebook, Skype and QQ, to mention a
few, which run on smartphones, background traffic has become one of the significant issues …

The proliferation of smartphones and the demand for all-day connectivity has brought
exponential growth of global mobile data traffic. To survive the explosive progression and …

Because of rapidly growing subscriber populations, advances in cellular communication
technology, increasingly capable user terminals, and the expanding range of mobile …

The incredible rise in popularity of mobile smart devices has placed tremendous pressure
on wireless service providers. While much of the pressure arises from increasingly rich …

Spatiotemporal characterization of user traffic is the first step in designing, optimizing, and
automating a mobile cellular network. While it is well known that voice telephony follows …

Traffic models play a key role in the analysis, design and simulation of communication
networks. The availability of accurate models is essential to investigate the impact of traffic …

Recently, mobile Internet gained a strong momentum of development, which has led to
increasing demand on mobile network traffic characterization and modeling. A good model …

As the volume of mobile traffic has been growing quickly in recent years, reducing the
congestion of mobile networks has become an important problem of networking research …

The quality of service (QoS) in wide area networks (WANs) is crucial for ensuring efficient
and reliable communication. Traditional QoS evaluation approaches, such as analysis …

Feasible traffic model is one of the most important investigation topic for a network during its
planning and performance evaluation. This paper studies traffic characteristics generated by …