Synthetic Smartphone Data Usage Modeling Through User Clustering

Stephan Wirsing; Benjamin Finley

doi:10.1109/PIMRC.2018.8581005

Synthetic Smartphone Data Usage Modeling Through User Clustering

Stephan Wirsing, Benjamin Finley

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Mobile network usage models (along with system models) are useful tools for estimating the performance of future and current mobile communication systems. However current mobile network usage models lack either the granularity or flexibility required for assessing advanced concepts (such as cognitive radio and dynamic spectrum access) at academic research levels. Therefore, in this work, we propose a network usage model that is both granular (modeling at the individual device level) and flexible (allowing arbitrary combinations of empirically derived user types and various time scales). We derive the user types through temporal clustering of network usage patterns of around 400 diverse US-based smartphone users. Additionally, the model accounts for the bursty nature and self-similarity of such traffic and we show these characteristics are preserved over several time scales.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 IEEE 29th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC 2018)
Publisher	IEEE
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5386-6009-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2018.8581005
Publication status	Published - Sept 2018
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications - Polo Congressuale, Bologna, Italy Duration: 9 Sept 2018 → 12 Sept 2018 Conference number: 29 http://pimrc2018.ieee-pimrc.org/

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Conference	IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
Abbreviated title	IEEE PIMRC
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Bologna
Period	09/09/2018 → 12/09/2018
Internet address	http://pimrc2018.ieee-pimrc.org/

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Wirsing, S & Finley, B 2018, Synthetic Smartphone Data Usage Modeling Through User Clustering. in 2018 IEEE 29th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE PIMRC 2018). IEEE, IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications , Bologna, Italy, 09/09/2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2018.8581005

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