Network sensing through smartphone-based crowdsourcing

Faggiani, Adriano; Gregori, Enrico; Lenzini, Luciano; Luconi, Valerio; Vecchio, Alessio

doi:10.1145/2517351.2517397

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“…Recent efforts have leveraged crowdsourcing to collect large-scale wireless measurements, enabling them to characterize wireless signal propagation and user mobility [7,16,28], to understand network performance and coverage [9,11,21], and to improve indoor localization accuracy [19,24]. Our work adopts a similar crowdsourcing approach but focuses on achieving real-time spectrum monitoring using low-cost mobile measurement platforms.…”

Section: Crowdsourcing and Wireless Measurementsmentioning

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Towards commoditized real-time spectrum monitoring

Nika

Zhang

Zhou

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Wireless

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We are facing an increasingly difficult challenge in spectrum management: how to perform real-time spectrum monitoring with strong coverage of deployed regions. Today's spectrum measurements are carried out by government employees driving around with specialized hardware that is usually bulky and expensive, making the task of gathering real-time, large-scale spectrum monitoring data extremely difficult and cost prohibitive. In this paper, we propose a solution to the spectrum monitoring problem by leveraging the power of the masses, i.e. millions of wireless users, using lowcost, commoditized spectrum monitoring hardware. We envision an ecosystem where crowdsourced smartphone users perform automated and continuous spectrum measurements using their mobile devices, and report the results to a monitoring agency in real-time. We perform an initial feasibility study to verify the efficacy of our mobile monitoring platform compared to that of conventional monitoring devices like USRP GNU radios. Results indicate that commoditized real-time spectrum monitoring is indeed feasible in the near future. We conclude by presenting a set of open challenges and potential directions for follow-up research.

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Section: Crowdsourcing and Wireless Measurementsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards commoditized real-time spectrum monitoring

Nika

Zhang

Zhou

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Wireless

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A Survey on Internet Performance Measurement Platforms and Related Standardization Efforts

Bajpai

Schönwälder

2015

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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A number of Internet measurement platforms have emerged in the last few years. These platforms have deployed thousands of probes at strategic locations within access and backbone networks and behind residential gateways. In this paper we provide a taxonomy of these measurement platforms on the basis of their deployment use-case. We describe these platforms in detail by exploring their coverage, scale, lifetime, deployed metrics and measurement tools, architecture and overall research impact. We conclude the survey by describing current standardization efforts to make large-scale performance measurement platforms interoperable.

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Survey of End-to-End Mobile Network Measurement Testbeds, Tools, and Services

Goel

Wittie

Claffy

et al. 2016

IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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Abstract-Mobile (cellular) networks enable innovation, but can also stifle it and lead to user frustration when network performance falls below expectations. As mobile networks become the predominant method of Internet access, developer, research, network operator, and regulatory communities have taken an increased interest in measuring end-to-end mobile network performance to, among other goals, minimize negative impact on application responsiveness. In this survey we examine current approaches to end-to-end mobile network performance measurement, diagnosis, and application prototyping. We compare available tools and their shortcomings with respect to the needs of researchers, developers, regulators, and the public. We intend for this survey to provide a comprehensive view of currently active efforts and some auspicious directions for future work in mobile network measurement and mobile application performance evaluation.

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Network sensing through smartphone-based crowdsourcing

Cited by 9 publications

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Towards commoditized real-time spectrum monitoring

Towards commoditized real-time spectrum monitoring

A Survey on Internet Performance Measurement Platforms and Related Standardization Efforts

Survey of End-to-End Mobile Network Measurement Testbeds, Tools, and Services

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