Evaluation of User Side Quality of Service Measurement Techniques for Addis Ababa LTE Data Service
| dc.contributor.advisor | Beneyam, Berehanu (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bethelhem, Alemayehu | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-21T08:02:51Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-28T14:09:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-09-21T08:02:51Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-28T14:09:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-07 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Penetration of high-rate and innovative mobile data services has increased to the global mobile industry such as social media, video streaming, and other multimedia services. To accommodate such innovative mobile data services, Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile technology is widely deployed and operational in several countries including Ethiopia where Ethio telecom has launched LTE data service in the capital Addis Ababa on March 2015. To maintain and sustain satisfactory LTE data services, LTE quality of service (QoS) needs to be measured and analyzed so that informed optimization and other decisions are made by operators, regulators and users. Various QoS parameters of data services can be measured using different network and user side measurement techniques. Drive test is the most common user side QoS measurement method that is applied by mobile operators and recently crowdsourcing techniques, where client applications are used to measure and collect QoS data from users, are being applied. In this thesis, we evaluate the performance of user side QoS measurement techniques for LTE data services focusing on selected crowdsourcing techniques: OpenSignal and Speedtest. We also present accuracy performance comparison between the crowdsourcing techniques and the conventional drive test. The performance evaluation and comparison are performed using measurement data that we have collected for selected ‘Tikur Anbesa’ area route of Addis Ababa. Detail analysis of the measurement techniques based on measured data is provided using Matlab. Furthermore, to understand LTE quality perception by various actors of the mobile industry, at the beginning of the thesis, we undertook a survey for Addis Ababa LTE network to the enterprise, end users, Internet Service Provider (ISP) and to the ISP regulator Ministry of Communications and Information technology (MCIT). Results show that, there is a limited awareness to the available measurement techniques and the observed LTE data service is below the expected average value, a summarized result of the survey are discussed in chapter two Section 5.3.3 of this thesis work. To access the quality of experience for LTE data service a downlink throughput and latency key performance indicators (KPI) are measured. Through the analysis of the measurement techniques: OpenSignal, SpeedTest and Nemo Handy for the KPI, we identify a significant difference in latency between OpenSignal and Nemo Handy; on the contrary the difference in latency between SpeedTest and Nemo Handy is minimal. The downlink throughput difference between OpenSignal and Nemo Handy is minimal, whereas SpeedTest and Nemo Handy has a major difference. We have quantified and evaluated the accuracy between the measurement techniques using Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) metric. The key factors affecting the results in addition to the test server location are discussed. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/12054 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | AAU | en_US |
| dc.subject | LTE | en_US |
| dc.subject | Crowd Sourcing | en_US |
| dc.subject | Drive Test | en_US |
| dc.subject | QoE | en_US |
| dc.subject | QoS | en_US |
| dc.title | Evaluation of User Side Quality of Service Measurement Techniques for Addis Ababa LTE Data Service | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |