Network Energy Consumption Assessment of Conventional Mobile Services and Over-The-Top Instant Messaging Applications

Abstract

The rapid growth in the energy consumption of mobile networks has become a major concern for mobile operators. Today's mobile networks' usage is dominated by over-The-Top (OTT) applications, and operators are keen to determine the network energy consumed by these OTT applications. With a recent shift in user behavior toward a preference for instant messaging (IM) applications over conventional mobile services, operators are interested in exploring what impact OTT IM applications such as WeChat will have on the energy consumption of a network when compared with a corresponding conventional mobile service. Here, we present for the first time energy assessment models for mobile services based o..