Characterizing smart phone traffic: A mobile carrier's perspective

In this paper we study the smart phone traffic and analyze its characterization from a mobile network operator's perspective. We collected and base out study on packet-level traces captured in a tier-1 cellular network serving a populated region in China. Our results, largely consistent with existing studies from end users' perspectives, show that web browsing contributes more than half of the traffic. Our detailed analysis, however, reveals some unique user browsing behaviors that have not been shown in other studies.