Impact of Client Applications on the Transmission of Mobile Traffic in Communication Networks

Abstract

The efficiency of traffic transmission through wireless communication networks is currently of considerable interest from a research point of view. This is due to the rapid growth of Internet resources, the convergence of technologies for transmitting heterogeneous traffic, the increased mobility of subscribers of communication networks, as well as the growth in the number of different client applications using mobile data transmission. In this paper, we investigate the impact of the growth of client applications on the transmission of mobile traffic. The study shows that the mobile terminal traffic is stable. It is more variable than a random series, because it consists of frequent reversals, but does not have long-term memory, since the Hurst index ranges from 0.3 to 0.5. The distribution of intervals between the arrival of TCP packets is described by the exponent. The distribution of packet lengths for TCP traffic shows that the bulk of the traffic is carried in long packets (1300–2500 bytes). The immutability of the statistical characteristics of traffic when installing several client applications in comparison with the characteristics obtained in previous studies (with a small number of client applications) indicates the immutability of the quality of service. Therefore, the growth of client applications does not affect the transmission of mobile traffic.