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M. Laner, P. Svoboda, S. Schwarz, M. Rupp:
"Users in Cells: a Data Traffic Analysis";
Talk: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC'12, Paris, France; 04-01-2012 - 04-04-2012; in: "Proceedings of the Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC'12", (2012), 6 pages.

We present a large-scale cell based measurement
analysis of the user behavior in a live operational HSDPA
network. The motivations are: first, to understand the statistical
properties of users in cells for refining network planning
procedures; and second, to provide realistic traffic models for
simulations of cellular packet-oriented networks. We provide an
analysis of mean cell load over daytime, as well as models for
short-term cell load in terms of user activity and throughput.
Furthermore, an evaluation of user-sessions with respect to
duration and mean throughput is given. Our findings lead
to four different models reflecting realistic user-traffic load of
cellular networks. To verify the concept we present respective
simulations which investigate multiuser-scheduling in an LTEnetwork.
They show that conventional simulation settings can
lead to an overestimation of performance.

measurement hsdpa traffic analysis cellular network user behavior heavy-tail