Paper Info
Title
Experience: An Open Platform for Experimentation with Commercial Mobile Broadband Networks.
Abstract
Open experimentation with operational Mobile Broadband (MBB) networks in the wild is currently a fundamental requirement of the research community in its endeavor to address the need of innovative solutions for mobile communications. Even more, there is a strong need for objective data about stability and performance of MBB (e.g., 3G/4G) networks, and for tools that rigorously and scientifically assess their status. In this paper, we introduce the MONROE measurement platform: an open access and flexible hardware-based platform for measurements and custom experimentation on operational MBB networks. The MONROE platform enables accurate, realistic and meaningful assessment of the performance and reliability of 11 MBB networks in Europe. We report on our experience designing, implementing and testing the solution we propose for the platform. We detail the challenges we overcame while building and testing the MONROE testbed and argue our design and implementation choices accordingly. We describe and exemplify the capabilities of the platform and the wide variety of experiments that external users already perform using the system.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3117811.3117812
MobiCom '17: The 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking Snowbird Utah USA October, 2017
Field
DocType
ISBN
Computer architecture,Telecommunications,Open platform,Computer science,Communications system,Testbed,Computer network,Mobile broadband,Mobile telephony
Conference
978-1-4503-4916-1
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
1.17
10
Authors
13
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Özgü Alay124730.68
Andra Lutu29818.25
Miguel Peón Quirós3323.83
Vincenzo Mancuso4124976.65
Thomas Hirsch5565.91
Kristian Evensen621816.54
Audun Fosselie Hansen729019.12
Stefan Alfredsson87410.41
Jonas Karlsson916517.60
Anna Brunstrom10445125.16
Ali Safari Khatouni11587.68
Marco Mellia122748204.65
M. A. Marsan1324344.52