Journal
IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SURVEYS AND TUTORIALS
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages 124-161Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2015.2491361
Keywords
Cellular networks; mobile communication; data analysis; data collection
Funding
- French National Research Agency [ANR-13-INFR-0005 ABCD]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-13-INFR-0005] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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This article surveys the literature on analyses of mobile traffic collected by operators within their network infrastructure. This is a recently emerged research field, and, apart from a few outliers, relevant works cover the period from 2005 to date, with a sensible densification over the last three years. We provide a thorough review of the multidisciplinary activities that rely on mobile traffic datasets, identifying major categories and sub-categories in the literature, so as to outline a hierarchical classification of research lines. When detailing the works pertaining to each class, we balance a comprehensive view of state-of-the-art results with punctual focuses on the methodological aspects. Our approach provides a complete introductory guide to the research based on mobile traffic analysis. It allows summarizing the main findings of the current state-of-the-art, as well as pinpointing important open research directions.
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