This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the usage of a large public wireless local area network which comprises of several components providing outdoor coverage in a city center and indoor coverage at a university campus and at selected public city premises. Analysis is based on correlating two types of data, RADIUS authentication data for determining the true usage of the network, and access point syslog data for localizing the usage. Analysis reveals interesting differences in the daily and weekly usage patterns of different user groups.
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