5G Mobile App Traffic Traces (Chalmers 2023)

Citation Author(s):: José Armando Tesén Marañón (Chalmers student)

Romaric Duvignau (Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg)
Submitted by:: Romaric Duvignau
Last updated:: Thu, 10/10/2024 - 13:46
DOI:: 10.21227/acn1-ek95
Data Format:: *.pcap

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Categories:

Keywords:

Traffic Classification

reproducible research

pcap

encrypted network traffic

mobile apps

5G dataset

5G mobile communication

mobile application

chalmers

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Abstract

This dataset consists of network packet traces collected in 2023 on the 5G infrastructure deployed at Chalmers University of Technology.

The dataset includes 1,912 pcap files, distributed across 8 folders. Each pcap file captures 1 minute of encrypted network traffic generated by one of the following 8 popular mobile applications:

Facebook
Instagram
LinkedIn
Spotify
TikTok
Twitter
Wikipedia
YouTube

The traffic was captured using a 5G-connected mobile device, with the data routed through a VPN connection to ensure that only packet timing and size information is retained, masking all other identifying details.

This dataset is valuable for studying application-specific traffic patterns on 5G networks, focusing on traffic encryption, packet timing, and size in the context of mobile applications.

Instructions:

The archive is a zipped version of the entire dataset (14.4 GiB) with the following structure:

dataset-pcap/
├── facebook (236 pcap files)
│   ├── 04011134.facebook.pcap
│   ├── 04[   ...    ].facebook.pcap
│   └── 04221127.facebook.pcap
├── instagram (249 pcap files)
│   ├── 04010921.instagram.pcap
│   ├── 04[   ...    ].instagram.pcap
│   └── 04291016.instagram.pcap
├── linkedin (230 pcap files)
│   ├── 04091013.linkedin.pcap
│   ├── 04[   ...    ].linkedin.pcap
│   └── 04220955.linkedin.pcap
├── spotify (245 pcap files)
│   ├── 04111155.spotify.pcap
│   ├── 04[   ...    ].spotify.pcap
│   └── 04290922.spotify.pcap
├── tiktok (235 pcap files)
│   ├── 04011230.tiktok.pcap
│   ├── 04[   ...    ].tiktok.pcap
│   └── 04221106.tiktok.pcap
├── twitter (239 pcap files)
│   ├── 04011153.twitter.pcap
│   ├── 04[   ...    ].twitter.pcap
│   └── 04221152.twitter.pcap
├── wikipedia (246 pcap files)
│   ├── 04110822.wikipedia.pcap
│   ├── 04[   ...    ].wikipedia.pcap
│   └── 04290951.wikipedia.pcap
└── youtube (232 pcap files)
   ├── 04011106.youtube.pcap
   ├── 04[   ...    ].youtube.pcap
   └── 04221041.youtube.pcap