期刊
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MOBILE COMPUTING
卷 17, 期 10, 页码 2366-2380出版社
IEEE COMPUTER SOC
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2018.2804913
关键词
Cellular network diagnosis; performance degradation; LTE; CSFB; Control plane
资金
- MSIP (Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning), Korea, under the ITRC (Information Technology Research Center) support program [IITP-2017-2015-0-00403]
A cellular network is a closed system, and each network operator has built a unique walled garden for their network by combining different operation policies, network configurations, and implementation optimizations. Unfortunately, some of these combinations can induce performance degradation due to misconfiguration or unnecessary procedures. To detect such degradation, a thorough understanding of even the minor details of the standards and operator-specific implementations is important. However, it is difficult to detect such problems, as the control plane is complicated by numerous procedures. This paper introduces a simple yet powerful method that diagnoses these problems by exploiting the operator-specific implementations of cellular networks. We develop a signaling collection and analysis tool that collects control plane messages from operators and finds problems through comparative analysis. The analysis process consists of three different control plane comparison procedures that can find such problems effectively. These individual procedures use a time threshold, control flow sequence, and signaling failure as the basis for comparison. To this end, we collect approximately 3.1 million control-plane messages from 13 major cellular operators worldwide. As a case study, we analyze the circuit-switched fallback technology that triggers generation crossover between third generation and long-term evolution technologies.
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