Cellular network quality evaluation at a university campus on the eve of 5G

• Autorzy: Falkowski-Gilski Przemysław , Uhl Tadeus

Identyfikatory

DOI

10.17402/510

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

Thanks to the availability of mobile devices and the spread of broadband access around the world, the number of network users continues to grow. This has raised user awareness when it comes to the quality of content they consume. Many service providers and operators focus on monitoring QoN (Quality of Network) and QoS (Quality of Service) parameters, particularly those influenced by bandwidth and latency. However, for most end-users, quality is understood as the subjective QoE (Quality of Experience), a mixture of several individual factors. This paper presents a QoN evaluation, carried out under real-time operating conditions at a university campus, considering the overall performance of the cellular network. The study involved 50 mobile devices, i.e., smartphones, used by students during their typical activity throughout a week. The results were gathered on the eve of 5G, using a custom-built Android application. This application enabled the acquisition of valuable data about the wireless link, including download and upload speed, latency (pink), the ID of the serving base station, and type of cellular connection. This approach can be used to detect the strengths and weaknesses of back-end networks.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

MBMS (Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Services); mobile technologies; multimedia; QoN (Quality of Network); QoS (Quality of Service); QoE (Quality of Experience); quality evaluation

• Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii Morskiej w Szczecinie
• Czasopismo: Zeszyty Naukowe Akademii Morskiej w Szczecinie
• Rocznik: 2022
• Tom: nr 70 (142)
• Strony: 73--80
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 32 poz., rys., tab.

Twórcy

autor

Falkowski-Gilski Przemysław

• Gdansk University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics, Telecommunications and Informatics 11/12 Narutowicza St., 80-233 Gdansk, Polan

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8920-6969

autor

Uhl Tadeus

• Maritime University of Szczecin, Faculty of Transport Engineering and Economics 1-2 Wały Chrobrego St., 70-500 Szczecin, Poland

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6849-9168

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Uwagi

Opracowanie rekordu ze środków MEiN, umowa nr SONP/SP/546092/2022 w ramach programu „Społeczna odpowiedzialność nauki” - moduł: Popularyzacja nauki i promocja sportu (2022-2023).