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Scanning Traffic at the Edge of a Cellular Network

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Passive and Active Network Measurement (PAM 2007)

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We report on the traffic and delay patterns observed at short time-scales at the edge of a cellular mobile network. We find that high-rate sequential scanners in the Internet are a common source of traffic impulses and introduce “noise” in the one-way delay measurements.

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  1. Ricciato, F., Hasenleithner, E.: Observations at short time-scales from the edge of a cellular data network. Technical Report FTW-TR-2007-001 (January 2007), Available online from, http://userver.ftw.at/~ricciato/darwin

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Steve Uhlig Konstantina Papagiannaki Olivier Bonaventure

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Ricciato, F., Hasenleithner, E. (2007). Scanning Traffic at the Edge of a Cellular Network. In: Uhlig, S., Papagiannaki, K., Bonaventure, O. (eds) Passive and Active Network Measurement. PAM 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4427. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71617-4_33

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