Understanding the dynamic traffic and usage characteristics of data services in cellular networks is important for optimising network resources and improving user experience.Recent studies have illustrated traffic cha...Understanding the dynamic traffic and usage characteristics of data services in cellular networks is important for optimising network resources and improving user experience.Recent studies have illustrated traffic characteristics from specific perspectives,such as user behaviour,device type,and applications.In this paper,we present the results of our study from a different perspective,namely service providers,to reveal the traffic characteristics of cellular data networks.Our study is based on traffic data collected over a five-day period from a leading mobile operator's core network in China.We propose a Zipf-like model to characterise the distributions of the traffic volume,subscribers,and requests among service providers.Nine distinct diurnal traffic patterns of service providers are identified by formulating and solving a time series clustering problem.Our work differs from previous related works in that we perform measurements on a large quantity of data covering 2.2 billion traffic records,and we first explore the traffic patterns of thousands of service providers.Results of our study present mobile Internet participants with a better understanding of the traffic and usage characteristics of service providers,which play a critical role in the mobile Internet era.展开更多
The Internet and information technology have fundamentally changed the inefficient and non-tradable nature of the service industry and greatly strengthened the impetus for services globalization.In the Internet age,th...The Internet and information technology have fundamentally changed the inefficient and non-tradable nature of the service industry and greatly strengthened the impetus for services globalization.In the Internet age,the accelerating globalization of services is irreversible.In the course of this process,China will enjoy advantages in terms of development stage,market scale,business models,Internet and digital technology applications and degree of openness,all of which will give it greater competitiveness.An analysis of cultural and sports industries indicates that the opening up of large countries’cultural markets will increase the international influence of their cultural factors.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61072061the 111 Project of China under Grant No.B08004the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No.2013RC0114
文摘Understanding the dynamic traffic and usage characteristics of data services in cellular networks is important for optimising network resources and improving user experience.Recent studies have illustrated traffic characteristics from specific perspectives,such as user behaviour,device type,and applications.In this paper,we present the results of our study from a different perspective,namely service providers,to reveal the traffic characteristics of cellular data networks.Our study is based on traffic data collected over a five-day period from a leading mobile operator's core network in China.We propose a Zipf-like model to characterise the distributions of the traffic volume,subscribers,and requests among service providers.Nine distinct diurnal traffic patterns of service providers are identified by formulating and solving a time series clustering problem.Our work differs from previous related works in that we perform measurements on a large quantity of data covering 2.2 billion traffic records,and we first explore the traffic patterns of thousands of service providers.Results of our study present mobile Internet participants with a better understanding of the traffic and usage characteristics of service providers,which play a critical role in the mobile Internet era.
基金This paper is a phased result of the major commissioned project of the National Social Science Fund of China,“Research on Ways to Enhance the Global Influence of Chinese Culture in the Internet and Digital Age”(18ZDA341).
文摘The Internet and information technology have fundamentally changed the inefficient and non-tradable nature of the service industry and greatly strengthened the impetus for services globalization.In the Internet age,the accelerating globalization of services is irreversible.In the course of this process,China will enjoy advantages in terms of development stage,market scale,business models,Internet and digital technology applications and degree of openness,all of which will give it greater competitiveness.An analysis of cultural and sports industries indicates that the opening up of large countries’cultural markets will increase the international influence of their cultural factors.
