Measuring Roaming in Europe: Infrastructure and Implications on Users QoE

Measuring Roaming in Europe : Infrastructure and Implications on Users QoE

"Roam like Home" is the initiative of the European Commission to end the levy of extra charges when roaming within the European region. As a result, people can use data services more freely across Europe. However, the implications of roaming solutions on network performance have not been carefully examined yet. This paper provides an in-depth characterization of the implications of international data roaming within Europe. We build a unique roaming measurement platform using 16 different mobile networks deployed in 6 countries across Europe. Using this platform, we measure different aspects of international roaming in 4G networks in Europe, including mobile network configuration, performance characteristics, and quality of experience. We find that operators adopt a common approach to implement roaming called Home-routed roaming. This results in additional latency penalties of 60 ms or more, depending on geographical distance. This leads to worse browsing performance, with an increase in the metrics related to Quality of Experience (QoE) of users (Page Load time and Speed Index) in the order of 15-20%. We further analyze the impact of latency on QoE metrics in isolation and find that the penalty imposed by Home Routing leads to degradation on QoE metrics up to 150% in case of intercontinental roaming. We make our dataset public to allow reproducing the results.

NATURVETENSKAP Data- och informationsvetenskap Datavetenskap hsv//swe
NATURAL SCIENCES Computer and Information Sciences Computer Sciences hsv//eng
NATURVETENSKAP Biologi Bioinformatik och systembiologi hsv//swe
NATURAL SCIENCES Biological Sciences Bioinformatics and Systems Biology hsv//eng
NATURVETENSKAP Matematik Sannolikhetsteori och statistik hsv//swe
NATURAL SCIENCES Mathematics Probability Theory and Statistics hsv//eng
TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER Maskinteknik Energiteknik hsv//swe
ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY Mechanical Engineering Energy Engineering hsv//eng
Europe
Home automation
IP networks
Mobile computing
Mobile nodes
Quality of experience
Servers
Mobile telecommunication systems
Quality of service
Wireless networks
Data services
European Commission
European regions
International roaming
Network configuration
Performance characteristics
Quality of experience (QoE)
Roaming solutions
4G mobile communication systems
Computer Science
Datavetenskap

Trevisan, M.DAUIN, Politecnico di Torino, ITA (författare)
Safari Khatouni, A.Western University, GBR (författare)
Mandalari, A. M.Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, ESP (författare)
Custura, A.University of Aberdeen, GBR (författare)
Mellia, M.Politecnico di Torino, ITA (författare)
Alay, O.University of Oslo, NOR (författare)
Bagnulo, M.Risultati di ricerca Risultati web Departamento de Ingenieria Telemetica, ESP (författare)
Bajpai, V.Technische Universitat Munchen, DEU (författare)
Brunström, Anna,1967-Karlstads universitet,Institutionen för matematik och datavetenskap (from 2013)(Swepub:kau)annabrun (författare)
Ott, J.Technische Universitat Munchen, DEU (författare)
Fairhurst, G.University of Aberdeen, GBR (författare)
Research, Telefonica Research and Development, ESPDAUIN, Politecnico di Torino, ITA (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)21:10, s. 3687-36991536-12331558-0660

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