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Quality Measurement of Push Services for Smart Devices

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The increased use of smart devices has led to rapid growth in the application (app) market. Many apps have taken advantage of push service to provide real-time notifications to smart device users. In this paper, it is described the operation mechanisms and quality measurement results for two represented push services, Apple Push Notification service and Google Cloud Messaging. The connection management scheme, push transmission delay, retransmission delay, and throughput are examined. In addition, it is discussed the loss behavior of back-to-back push messages due to the small buffer and the abnormal behavior of push service due to Network Address Translation.

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This work was supported by Institute for Information & communications Technology Promotion(IITP) grant funded by the Korea government(MSIP)(No.10041244, Smart TV 2.0 Software Platform) and the ICT R&D program of MSIP/IITP [R0126-15-1009, Development of Smart Mediator for Mashup Service and Information Sharing among ICBMS Platform].

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Keimyung University, Daegu, Republic of Korea

    Donghyeok An

  2. Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Kyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea

    Honguk Woo

  3. College of Information and Communication Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea

    Chilgee Lee & Ikjun Yeom

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An, D., Woo, H., Lee, C. et al. Quality Measurement of Push Services for Smart Devices. Wireless Pers Commun 88, 319–336 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-015-3122-7

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