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Measuring Mobile Peer-to-Peer Usage: Case Finland 2007

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Passive and Active Network Measurement (PAM 2009)

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We study the development of mobile peer-to-peer (MP2P) traffic and the usage of MP2P applications in Finland during 2005-2007. Research data consists of 1) traffic traces measured from three Finnish GSM/UMTS networks covering the Internet-bound mobile data traffic generated by 80-90% of Finnish mobile subscribers (N > 4,000,000), and 2) usage log files collected with a dedicated Symbian handset monitoring application (N = 579). In the traffic trace measurement, we notice almost zero P2P file sharing traffic for handsets, but 9-18% of unidentified traffic, part of which possibly being P2P traffic. Potentially a notable growing trend for computer-based P2P file sharing traffic is visible in GSM/UMTS networks, BitTorrent and eDonkey being the most popular protocols. In the panel study, only Fring, a client to several P2P-based communication services, has significant usage and data volume levels.

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  1. TKK Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 3000, FI-02015, TKK, Finland

    Mikko V. J. Heikkinen, Antero Kivi & Hannu Verkasalo

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  1. Computer Science Department, KAIST, Gwahangno 335, Yuseong-Gu, 305-701, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

    Sue B. Moon

  2. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, 75016, Paris, France

    Renata Teixeira

  3. T-labs/TU Berlin, Ernst-Reuter-Platz 7, 10587, Berlin, Germany

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Heikkinen, M.V.J., Kivi, A., Verkasalo, H. (2009). Measuring Mobile Peer-to-Peer Usage: Case Finland 2007. In: Moon, S.B., Teixeira, R., Uhlig, S. (eds) Passive and Active Network Measurement. PAM 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5448. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00975-4_17

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