suMMarY report for the First NSF Workshop on Mobile Community Measurement Infrastructure
David Choffnes, Z. Morley Mao · GetMobile Mobile Computing and Communications · 2015
Flexible measurement infrastructure support for experimentation are critical for enabling and supporting research work with strong experimental components to help validate ideas and evaluate the design in practice. Mobile computing research work must be evaluated in as realistic network settings as possible to help researchers understand how various factors, such as signal strength, network load aff ect the performance and energy metrics of interest. Currently, there is no environment that enables network visibility from an end-to-end perspective of the cellular network protocol stack: from the end-device all the way to the network server traversing through various network elements. Th e lack of such an integrated measurement infrastructure greatly hinders the innovation in this important research field.