The ongoing evolution of wireless cellular networks is creating a new ecosystem with pervasive presence of a great variety of network-enabled objects which, based on unique addressing schemes, are able to interact with each other. Cellular connectivity is reaching beyond smartphones and tablets, providing access to data networks for connected home appliances, machinery and vehicles. The rapid e...

Since their inception, mobile communications have become sophisticated and ubiquitous. However, as the popularity of mobile communications surged in the 1990s, Second Generation (2G) mobile cellular systems such as IS-95 and Global System for Mobile (GSM) were unable to meet the growing demand for more network capacity. At the same time, thanks to the Internet boom, users demanded better and fa...

The next two papers focus on cellular data communications, with one focusing on location estimation in 4G networks, and the other on cooperative cell caching for mobile networks. The sixth paper is part of a series in this minitrack, started in prior years' HICSS, on modeling a large and realistic mobile data service for the purposes of improving the service itself. The paper describes the Germ...

This paper presents cniCloud, a cloud platform for mobile devices to share and query the ne-grained cellular information at scale. cniCloud extends the single-device cellular analytics via crowdsourcing: It collects the ne-grained cellular network data from massive mobile devices, aggregates them in a cloud database, and provides interfaces for end users to run SQL-like query over the cellular ...

To date, the growth of mobile communications has been fuelled almost exclusively by voice calls. However, voice is becoming a saturated market, and with increasing competition forcing lower prices, leading to a trend of declining ARPU, mobile operators are seeking to introduce new services in order to maintain growth. Industry forecasts predict that revenues from data traffic will compensate fo...

New wireless access networks, managed by multiple operators, are emerging as alternatives to mobile cellular networks. Thus, having a holistic view on usage and traffic patterns will be increasingly difficult. A range of methods exist for collecting data on mobile data usage and traffic. Surveys and terminal measurements provide very detailed sample based data, whereas mobile network data is le...