A variegated look at 5G in the wild: Performance, power, and QoE implications

Arvind Narayanan; Xumiao Zhang; Ruiyang Zhu; Ahmad Hassan; Shuowei Jin; Xiao Zhu; Xiaoxuan Zhang; Denis Rybkin; Zhengxuan Yang; Zhuoqing Morley Mao; Feng Qian; Zhi Li Zhang

doi:10.1145/3452296.3472923

A variegated look at 5G in the wild: Performance, power, and QoE implications

Arvind Narayanan, Xumiao Zhang, Ruiyang Zhu, Ahmad Hassan, Shuowei Jin, Xiao Zhu, Xiaoxuan Zhang, Denis Rybkin, Zhengxuan Yang, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Feng Qian, Zhi Li Zhang

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Abstract

Motivated by the rapid deployment of 5G, we carry out an in-depth measurement study of the performance, power consumption, and application quality-of-experience (QoE) of commercial 5G networks in the wild. We examine different 5G carriers, deployment schemes (Non-Standalone, NSA vs. Standalone, SA), radio bands (mmWave and sub 6-GHz), protocol configurations (_e.g._ Radio Resource Control state transitions), mobility patterns (stationary, walking, driving), client devices (_i.e._ User Equipment), and upper-layer applications (file download, video streaming, and web browsing). Our findings reveal key characteristics of commercial 5G in terms of throughput, latency, handover behaviors, radio state transitions, and radio power consumption under the above diverse scenarios, with detailed comparisons to 4G/LTE networks. Furthermore, our study provides key insights into how upper-layer applications should best utilize 5G by balancing the critical tradeoff between performance and energy consumption, as well as by taking into account the availability of both network and computation resources. We have released the datasets and tools of our study at https://github.com/SIGCOMM21-5G/artifact.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	SIGCOMM 2021 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	610-625
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450383837
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3452296.3472923
State	Published - Aug 9 2021
Event	2021 Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the Applications, SIGCOMM 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: Aug 23 2021 → Aug 27 2021

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Name	SIGCOMM 2021 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference

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Conference	2021 Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the Applications, SIGCOMM 2021
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	8/23/21 → 8/27/21

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank our shepherd Mythili Vutukuru and the anonymous reviewers for their suggestions and feedback. We also thank Art Brisebois and Gyan Ranjan from Ericsson (US) for providing deeper insights on our measurement study. This research was in part supported by NSF under Grants CNS-1814322, CNS-1836722, CNS-1901103, CNS-1915122, CNS-1903880, CNS-1930041, CNS-1544678, and CCF-1628991.

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© 2021 ACM.

Keywords

5G
dataset
energy efficiency
latency
mmWave
network measurement
power characteristics
power model
video streaming

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Narayanan, A., Zhang, X., Zhu, R., Hassan, A., Jin, S., Zhu, X., Zhang, X., Rybkin, D., Yang, Z., Mao, Z. M., Qian, F., & Zhang, Z. L. (2021). A variegated look at 5G in the wild: Performance, power, and QoE implications. In SIGCOMM 2021 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference (pp. 610-625). (SIGCOMM 2021 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3452296.3472923

A variegated look at 5G in the wild: Performance, power, and QoE implications. / Narayanan, Arvind; Zhang, Xumiao; Zhu, Ruiyang et al.
SIGCOMM 2021 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2021. p. 610-625 (SIGCOMM 2021 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference).

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Narayanan, A, Zhang, X, Zhu, R, Hassan, A, Jin, S, Zhu, X, Zhang, X, Rybkin, D, Yang, Z, Mao, ZM, Qian, F & Zhang, ZL 2021, A variegated look at 5G in the wild: Performance, power, and QoE implications. in SIGCOMM 2021 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference. SIGCOMM 2021 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2021 Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, pp. 610-625, 2021 Annual Conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the Applications, SIGCOMM 2021, Virtual, Online, United States, 8/23/21. https://doi.org/10.1145/3452296.3472923

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