PROJECT TITLE :

Large-Scale Mobile Traffic Analysis: A Survey

ABSTRACT:

This article surveys the literature on analyses of mobile traffic collected by operators within their network infrastructure. This can be a recently emerged analysis field, and, other than a few outliers, relevant works cover the period from 2005 to this point, with a smart densification over the last 3 years. We have a tendency to give a radical review of the multidisciplinary activities that rely on mobile traffic datasets, identifying major classes and sub-categories in the literature, so as to stipulate a hierarchical classification of analysis lines. When detailing the works pertaining to each class, we tend to balance a comprehensive read of state-of-the-art results with punctual focuses on the methodological aspects. Our approach provides a complete introductory guide to the analysis primarily based on mobile traffic analysis. It allows summarizing the most findings of the current state-of-the-art, in addition to pinpointing vital open analysis directions.