"This database is going to allow these signals to be identified — it's going to allow people to take control over their proximal identities," said Parodi, referring to the way offline tracking depends on a person's nearness to a store rather than their exact location as divulged by their mobile communications traffic.
It is foreseen that, in the period between 2016 and 2022, mobile communications traffic will dominate even more than it does today, experiencing an eightfold raise in half a decade [1].
Mobile communications data traffic is expected to increase 1,000 fold by 2020, by which time there will be an estimated at least 50 billion Internet-capable devices," he noted in a statement.
Small cells (SC) are low-power base stations designed to cope with the anticipated huge traffic growth of mobile communications.
Extrapolating this trend, it is estimated that by 2020 data traffic will be the dominant in mobile communications primarily due to the proliferation of applications like video streaming.
This meant that the legally dubious voluntary code brought in by home secretary, David Blunkett, for the collection of communications traffic data including all emails, faxes and mobile phone calls – including their location – could be legitimised and made mandatory for all communications service providers.
In India, a group of researchers use many sensing components from a mobile phone such as accelerometer, microphone, Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) radio, and Global Positioning System (GPS) to monitor road and traffic conditions[6].
"Unless we are able to cultivate and grow data traffic, we cannot guarantee further growth for the mobile communications industry," says Keiji Tachikawa, president and chief executive of NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile operator and the world leader in mobile data services.
This type of traffic is very common in different areas, such as cellular mobile communications, distant health monitoring, online video games, peer-to-peer (P2P) TV, P2P file sharing, and video conferencing [7].
Comparing the shape of the daily evolution of the HSPA traffic with the shape of the daily evolution of GSM Global Systemm for Mobile communications) as shown in[15], shows no significant differences.
A pioneer in automotive antennas in the 20th century, Kathrein-Werke -- Anton Kathrein, Jr. is the third generation to lead the company -- has become a key player in mobile communications as service providers have expanded their networks to accommodate rapid growth in data traffic and users.
