HLOC: Hints-based geolocation leveraging multiple measurement frameworks

Q Scheitle, O Gasser, P Sattler… - 2017 Network Traffic …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Geographically locating an IP address is of interest for many purposes. There are two major
ways to obtain the location of an IP address: querying commercial databases or conducting …

Fast and light bandwidth testing for internet users

X Yang, X Wang, Z Li, Y Liu, F Qian, L Gong… - … USENIX Symposium on …, 2021 - usenix.org
Bandwidth testing measures the access bandwidth of end hosts, which is crucial to
emerging Internet applications for network-aware content delivery. However, today's …

Understanding the ecosystem and addressing the fundamental concerns of commercial MVNO

Y Li, J Zheng, Z Li, Y Liu, F Qian, S Bai… - … /ACM Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent years have witnessed the rapid growth of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs),
which operate on top of existing cellular infrastructures of base carriers, while offering …

Fast uplink bandwidth testing for internet users

Z Li, X Li, X Yang, X Wang, F Qian… - IEEE/ACM Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Access bandwidth measurement is crucial to emerging Internet applications for network-
aware content delivery. However, today's bandwidth testing services (BTSes) are slow and …

An in-depth study of commercial MVNO: Measurement and optimization

A Xiao, Y Liu, Y Li, F Qian, Z Li, S Bai, Y Liu… - Proceedings of the 17th …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Recent years have witnessed the rapid growth of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs),
which operate on top of the existing cellular infrastructures of base carriers while offering …

Inferring regional access network topologies: Methods and applications

Z Zhang, A Marder, R Mok, B Huffaker… - Proceedings of the 21st …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Using a toolbox of Internet cartography methods, and new ways of applying them, we have
undertaken a comprehensive active measurement-driven study of the topology of US …

Untangling IoT Global Connectivity: The Importance of Mobile Signaling Traffic

S Geißler, A Lutu, F Wamser, T Favale… - … on Network and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
IoT plays an important role in cellular networks, and its need for global connectivity is driving
the rise of Global IoT Providers. These provide service by aggregating multiple mobile …

A Shortcut Through the IPX: Measuring Latencies in Global Mobile Roaming with Regional Breakouts

V Vomhoff, M Sichermann, S Gieißler… - 2024 8th Network …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the rapidly evolving field of mobile communications, the demand for seamless worldwide
connectivity for Internet of Things (IoT) devices introduces distinct challenges. With IoT …

How Special is New Year Eve Traffic? Insights from Four Years 3G/4G/5G User Measurements

E Obiodu, A Abubakar, A Raman… - 2022 45th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The specialness of New Year eve traffic is a telecoms industry fable. But how true is it, and
what's the impact on user experience? We investigate this on the four UK cellular networks …

Performance tradeoff of MVNOs in OFDMA-based Virtualized wireless networks

MR Mili, S Li, F Mokhtari, M Derakhshani… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we analyze the tradeoff between the profits gained by mobile virtual network
operators (MVNOs) in an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)-based …