Network Traffic Modelling for IOT

Devices
Yusuf Aksehir
 Contents
• What is IOT?
• What is Network Traffic Modeling?
• Self Similarity
• M2M Communication Basics
• Traffic Modeling
 What is IOT?
• Connected electronic devices
• Application areas
– Wearable devices
– Consumer electronics
– Health-care
– Transportation
• Why important?
 What is IOT?
• Market value
– 9.1 billion units as of 2013
– 28.1 billion units are expected by 2020
– 7.1 trillion $ revenue growth expected by 2020
• Issues
– Security
– Hard to update
– Energy concerns
Lund, D., Turner, V., MacGillivray, C., & Morales, M. (2014, May). Worldwide and Regional Internet of Things (IoT) 2014 – 2020 Forecast: A
Virtuous Circle of Proven Value and Demand. Retrieved January 25, 2016, from http://www.business.att.com/content/article/IoT-
worldwide_regional_2014-2020-forecast.pdf
What is Network Traffic Modelling
• Planning and Design (Engineering Model)
• Performance(Performance Model)
• Types of Models
– Non-Self-Similar Models
• Poisson Model
• Markov Modulated Poisson Model
– Self-Similar Models
• SWING
• Autoregressive
 Self Similarity

[Leland94] Leland, W. E., Taqqu, M. S., Willinger, W., and Wilson, D. V. 1994. “On the self-similar nature of Ethernet traffic (extended version),”
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw. 2, 1 (Feb. 1994), 1-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/90.282603
 M2M Communication
• HTC and MTC
– Heterogeneous vs Homogenous
– Uncoordinated vs coordinated
• Two approaches for MTC models
– Source traffic modelling
– Aggregated traffic modelling
• Is HTC models are suitable for MTC?
• Feasibility
 M2M Communication
• Lots of devices
• Short packets per device
• Low duty cycle traffic pattern
• Small statistical variations in traffic pattern from
single device
• Uplink dominance
• Real-time data (delay tolerance)
• Both raw and aggregated data
• Syncronized and unsyncronized packets
• Spatiotemporal dependant trigger
IOT Traffic Modelling
Trace Recording
Traffic Modelling
 Source vs Aggregated
• Number of devices
• Traffic complexity
• Tracing different layers
• Application
 Source Traffic Modelling
• M2M traffic states
– Periodic Update
– Event Driven
– Payload Exchange
– Off
• Random packet arrival time, random packet
size and random hold time
• Complexity vs Accuracy
 Aggregated Traffic Modelling
• 3GPP model
– Parameters, scenarios
– Complexity vs accuracy
• Feasibility
– Low number of devices
– Lots of packets from same device
– Dependency between scenarios
– Network influence over traffic pattern
Thank you for your attention
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