Real-time cellular activity monitoring using LTE radio measurements

Mohammed M. Olama; Teja Kuruganti; Miljko Bobrek; Stephen Killough; James J. Nutaro; Gautam S. Thakur

doi:10.1109/PIMRC.2017.8292665

Real-time cellular activity monitoring using LTE radio measurements

Mohammed M. Olama, Teja Kuruganti, Miljko Bobrek, Stephen Killough, James J. Nutaro, Gautam S. Thakur

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Abstract

As the licensing and deployment of long term evolution (LTE) systems are ramping up, the study of cellular activity in LTE systems is essential to better understand the spectrum needs and make informed decisions on mobile device density over time. Meanwhile, there are limited tools to non-intrusively monitor mobile device density in real-time. Cellular carriers gather such data through their base stations; however, this data is proprietary with restricted access due to privacy concerns. In this paper, we present a toolset that non-intrusively monitors the cellular activity and senses the mobile device density from over-the-air LTE radio measurements without violating the privacy of mobile users. This information can be passively extracted from the downlink control channel information messages in the LTE physical layer protocol. A hardware prototype has been developed in our laboratory to measure and analyze the downlink LTE radio signals and provide real-time insights to the cellular activity and mobile device count.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2017 IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
Subtitle of host publication	Engaged Citizens and their New Smart Worlds, PIMRC 2017 - Conference Proceedings
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	1-5
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538635315
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2017.8292665
State	Published - Jul 2 2017
Event	28th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2017 - Montreal, Canada Duration: Oct 8 2017 → Oct 13 2017

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Name	IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC
Volume	2017-October

Conference

Conference	28th Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2017
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	10/8/17 → 10/13/17

Funding

ACKNOWLEDGMENT Research sponsored by the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the U. S. Department of Energy. The submitted manuscript has been authored by a contractor of the U.S. Government under Contract DE-AC05-00OR22725. Accordingly, the U.S. Government retains a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce the published form of this contribution, or allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan.

Funders	Funder number
U.S. Department of Energy	DE-AC05-00OR22725
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Keywords

C-RNTI
Cellular activity monitoring
Cellular networks
Downlink LTE channels
LTE
LTE physical layer protocol
OFDM
Population density

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Olama, M. M., Kuruganti, T., Bobrek, M., Killough, S., Nutaro, J. J., & Thakur, G. S. (2017). Real-time cellular activity monitoring using LTE radio measurements. In 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications: Engaged Citizens and their New Smart Worlds, PIMRC 2017 - Conference Proceedings (pp. 1-5). (IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC; Vol. 2017-October). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/PIMRC.2017.8292665

Olama, Mohammed M. ; Kuruganti, Teja ; Bobrek, Miljko et al. / Real-time cellular activity monitoring using LTE radio measurements. 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications: Engaged Citizens and their New Smart Worlds, PIMRC 2017 - Conference Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. pp. 1-5 (IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC).

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Real-time cellular activity monitoring using LTE radio measurements. / Olama, Mohammed M.; Kuruganti, Teja ; Bobrek, Miljko et al.
2017 IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications: Engaged Citizens and their New Smart Worlds, PIMRC 2017 - Conference Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017. p. 1-5 (IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC; Vol. 2017-October).

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Olama MM , Kuruganti T , Bobrek M , Killough S , Nutaro JJ , Thakur GS. Real-time cellular activity monitoring using LTE radio measurements. In 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications: Engaged Citizens and their New Smart Worlds, PIMRC 2017 - Conference Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2017. p. 1-5. (IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC). doi: 10.1109/PIMRC.2017.8292665

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