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Beyond throughput: a 4G LTE dataset with channel and context metrics

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Jason J. Quinlan,

Ahmed H. Zahran,

Cormac J. SreenanAuthors Info & Claims

MMSys '18: Proceedings of the 9th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference

Pages 460 - 465

https://doi.org/10.1145/3204949.3208123

Published: 12 June 2018 Publication History

Abstract

In this paper, we present a 4G trace dataset composed of client-side cellular key performance indicators (KPIs) collected from two major Irish mobile operators, across different mobility patterns (static, pedestrian, car, bus and train). The 4G trace dataset contains 135 traces, with an average duration of fifteen minutes per trace, with viewable throughput ranging from 0 to 173 Mbit/s at a granularity of one sample per second. Our traces are generated from a well-known non-rooted Android network monitoring application, G-NetTrack Pro. This tool enables capturing various channel related KPIs, context-related metrics, downlink and uplink throughput, and also cell-related information. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first publicly available dataset that contains throughput, channel and context information for 4G networks.

To supplement our real-time 4G production network dataset, we also provide a synthetic dataset generated from a large-scale 4G ns-3 simulation that includes one hundred users randomly scattered across a seven-cell cluster. The purpose of this dataset is to provide additional information (such as competing metrics for users connected to the same cell), thus providing otherwise unavailable information about the eNodeB environment and scheduling principle, to end user. In addition to this dataset, we also provide the code and context information to allow other researchers to generate their own synthetic datasets.

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Beyond throughput: a 4G LTE dataset with channel and context metrics
1. Information systems
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    1. Multimedia information systems
      1. Multimedia streaming
2. Networks
  1. Network performance evaluation
    1. Network measurement
  2. Network types
    1. Public Internet
    2. Wireless access networks

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