A First Look at SIM-Enabled Wearables in the Wild

Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference 2018 Pub Date : 2018-10-31 DOI:10.1145/3278532.3278540

Harini Kolamunna, Ilias Leontiadis, Diego Perino, Suranga Seneviratne, Kanchana Thilakarathna, A. Seneviratne

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Abstract

Recent advances are driving wearables towards stand-alone devices with cellular network support (e.g. SIM-enabled Apple Watch series-3). Nonetheless, a little has been studied on SIM-enabled wearable traffic in ISP networks to gain customer insights and to understand traffic characteristics. In this paper, we characterize the network traffic of several thousand SIM-enabled wearable users in a large European mobile ISP. We present insights on user behavior, application characteristics such as popularity and usage, and wearable traffic patterns. We observed a 9% increase in SIM-enabled wearable users over a five month observation period. However, only 34% of such users actually generate any network transaction. Our analysis also indicates that SIM-enabled wearable users are significantly more active in terms of mobility, data consumption and frequency of app usage compared to the remaining customers of the ISP who are mostly equipped with a smartphone. Finally, wearable apps directly communicate with third parties such as advertisement and analytics networks similarly to smartphone apps.

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首先看看在野外支持sim卡的可穿戴设备

最近的进展正在推动可穿戴设备向支持蜂窝网络的独立设备发展(例如支持sim卡的Apple Watch series-3)。尽管如此，对ISP网络中支持sim卡的可穿戴流量进行了少量研究，以获得客户见解并了解流量特征。在本文中，我们描述了欧洲大型移动ISP中数千名支持sim卡的可穿戴用户的网络流量。我们对用户行为、应用程序特征(如受欢迎程度和使用情况)以及可穿戴流量模式提出了见解。我们发现，在5个月的观察期内，支持sim卡的可穿戴设备用户增加了9%。然而，只有34%的此类用户实际上产生了任何网络交易。我们的分析还表明，与大部分使用智能手机的ISP客户相比，支持sim卡的可穿戴用户在移动性、数据消费和应用使用频率方面明显更加活跃。最后，与智能手机应用程序类似，可穿戴应用程序直接与第三方(如广告和分析网络)进行通信。

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