Carolan, Emmett and McLoone, Seamus and Farrell, Ronan (2014) Characterising Spatial Relationships in Base Station Resource Usage. In: 17th Research Colloquium on Communications and Radio Science into the 21st Century, 30th April - 1st May 2014, Royal Irish Academy, Academy House, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2.

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Abstract

This work preliminarily introduces an up to date measurement-driven examination of the spatial characteristics of network resource usage. The data set used is from a large nationwide 3G cellular network comprised of several thousand base stations. Firstly, we discuss our data set and how it can be appropriately used. Next, we examine the spatial correlation between base stations in terms of radio resource usage. We find significant spatial correlation, particularly for proximate base stations. We also examine the causality structure in the network using Granger causality and explore a metric for the identification of key indicator base stations. These indicator base stations act as hubs in the wider network and provide additional information about the future states of their neighbors. Finally, we conclude with a brief discussion of how we wish to build on this work.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Keywords:	Spatial Relationships; Base Station Resource Usage;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Electronic Engineering
Item ID:	5428
Depositing User:	Ronan Farrell
Date Deposited:	29 Sep 2014 13:33
Journal or Publication Title:	Proceedings of the 17th Research Colloquium on Communications and Radio Science into the 21st Century
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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