TY - GEN
T1 - Experience
T2 - 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom 2018
AU - Mandalari, Anna Maria
AU - Lutu, Andra
AU - Custura, Ana
AU - Khatouni, Ali Safari
AU - Alay, Özgü
AU - Bagnulo, Marcelo
AU - Bajpai, Vaibhav
AU - Brunstrom, Anna
AU - Ott, Jörg
AU - Mellia, Marco
AU - Fairhurst, Gorry
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2018/10/15
Y1 - 2018/10/15
N2 - "Roam like Home" is the initiative of the European Commission (EC) to end the levy of extra charges when roaming within the European region. As a result, people are able to use data services more freely across Europe. However, the implications roaming solutions have on performance have not been carefully examined. 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 six countries across Europe. Using this platform, we measure different aspects of international roaming in 3G and 4G networks, including mobile network configuration, performance characteristics, and content discrimination. We find that operators adopt common approaches to implementing roaming, resulting in additional latency penalties of-60 ms or more, depending on geographical distance. Considering content accessibility, roaming poses additional constraints that leads to only minimal deviations when accessing content in the original country. However, geographical restrictions in the visited country make the picture more complicated and less intuitive.
AB - "Roam like Home" is the initiative of the European Commission (EC) to end the levy of extra charges when roaming within the European region. As a result, people are able to use data services more freely across Europe. However, the implications roaming solutions have on performance have not been carefully examined. 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 six countries across Europe. Using this platform, we measure different aspects of international roaming in 3G and 4G networks, including mobile network configuration, performance characteristics, and content discrimination. We find that operators adopt common approaches to implementing roaming, resulting in additional latency penalties of-60 ms or more, depending on geographical distance. Considering content accessibility, roaming poses additional constraints that leads to only minimal deviations when accessing content in the original country. However, geographical restrictions in the visited country make the picture more complicated and less intuitive.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85056849884&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3241539.3241577
DO - 10.1145/3241539.3241577
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85056849884
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM
SP - 179
EP - 189
BT - MobiCom 2018 - Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 29 October 2018 through 2 November 2018
ER -