Research on mobile network traffic taxonomy

A huge amount of mobile traffic runs on Internet every day. The complex mobile traffic data may degrade the network performance if they are not well managed. As the important foundation of network management, mobile network traffic classification aim to map IP packets into a predefined traffic class set. Most work in this area until now has focused on classification schemes. In contrast, little attention has been paid towards traffic class definition. Various kinds of traffic class lead to difficultly comparing these traffic classification methods. This paper presents a mobile traffic taxonomy based on ontology paradigm. Its meta-characteristic is the mobile traffic communication from users' perspective. It defines mobile network traffic into four levels of categories. And the taxonomy could be used for multiple traffic classification purposes.