Reliability comparisons of mobile network operators: an experimental case study  from a crowdsourced dataset

Engin ZEYDAN; Ahmet YILDIRIM

doi:https://doi.org/10.3906/elk-1904-143

Makale detayları

Reliability comparisons of mobile network operators: an experimental case study from a crowdsourced dataset

Yazarlar:

Engin ZEYDAN | Ahmet YILDIRIM

Yayıncı:

TUBITAK

Dergi:

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2020 Vol.28 Issue 1, pp.380-393

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2019

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000733339

Sıklık:

İki Aylık

eISSN:

1303-6203

pISSN:

1300-0632

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3906/elk-1904-143

Özet:

 

It is of great interest for Mobile Network Operators  MNOs  to know how well their network infrastructure   performance behaves in different geographical regions of their operating country compared to their horizontal competitors.   However, traditional network monitoring and measurement methods of network infrastructure use limited numbers   of measurement points that are insufficient for detailed analysis and expensive to scale using an internal workforce.   On the other hand, the abundance of crowdsourced content can engender various unforeseen opportunities for MNOs   to cope with this scaling problem. This paper investigates end-to-end reliability and packet loss  PL  performance   comparisons of MNOs using a previously collected real-world proprietary crowdsourced dataset from a user application   for 13 months’ duration in Turkey. More particularly, a unified crowdsourced data-aided statistical MNO comparison   framework is proposed, which consists of data collection and network performance analysis steps. Our results are   statistically supported using confidence interval analysis for the mean difference of PL ratios and reliability levels   of MNOs using unpaired number of observations statistical analysis. The network performance results indicate that   significant performance differences in MNOs depending on different regions of the country exist. Moreover, we observe   that the overall comparative ordered list of MNOs’ reliability performance does not differ when both PL and latency   requirements vary.

Makale detayları

Reliability comparisons of mobile network operators: an experimental case study from a crowdsourced dataset

Yazarlar: Engin ZEYDAN | Ahmet YILDIRIM

Yayıncı: TUBITAK

Dergi: Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2020 Vol.28 Issue 1, pp.380-393

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 12/2019

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000733339

Sıklık: İki Aylık

eISSN: 1303-6203

pISSN: 1300-0632

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3906/elk-1904-143

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Engin ZEYDAN | Ahmet YILDIRIM

Yayıncı:

TUBITAK

Dergi:

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2020 Vol.28 Issue 1, pp.380-393

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

12/2019

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000733339

Sıklık:

İki Aylık

eISSN:

1303-6203

pISSN:

1300-0632

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3906/elk-1904-143