A replay approach for remote testing user experience of mobile bursty data application

Abstract

The Bursty data applications become popular in mobile networks, and the quality of end user experience of these applications is vital for mobile telecom operators. Mobile telecom operators and equipment providers begin to design new scheduling strategies aiming at improving quality of user experience. These scheduling strategies can identify particular applications and assign corresponding scheme to them. But traditional test approaches only consider the common performance indicators, so they cannot evaluate the new scheduling strategies. This paper proposes an approach of replaying user behaviors to evaluate the communication system. The approach uses user behavior model to build test scenarios, and evaluate the performance of each application via corresponding particular indicators. Finally, a remote test system is built, and the experiment on this system proves the effectiveness of this approach.