RILAnalyzer: a comprehensive 3G monitor on your phone

N Vallina-Rodriguez, A Auçinas, M Almeida… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
The popularity of smartphones, cloud computing, and the app store model have led to
cellular networks being used in a completely different way than what they were designed for …

Obtaining in-context measurements of cellular network performance

A Gember, A Akella, J Pang, A Varshavsky… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Network service providers, and other parties, require an accurate understanding of the
performance cellular networks deliver to users. In particular, they often seek a measure of …

Anatomizing application performance differences on smartphones

J Huang, Q Xu, B Tiwana, ZM Mao, M Zhang… - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
The use of cellular data networks is increasingly popular due to the widespread deployment
of 3G technologies and the rapid adoption of smartphones, such as iPhone and GPhone …

Mobilyzer: An open platform for controllable mobile network measurements

A Nikravesh, H Yao, S Xu, D Choffnes… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Mobile Internet availability, performance and reliability have remained stubbornly opaque
since the rise of cellular data access. Conducting network measurements can give us insight …

Geospatial and temporal dynamics of application usage in cellular data networks

MZ Shafiq, L Ji, AX Liu, J Pang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Significant geospatial and temporal correlations, in terms of traffic volume and application
access, exist in cellular network usage as shown in recent studies on cellular network …

Mobileinsight: Extracting and analyzing cellular network information on smartphones

Y Li, C Peng, Z Yuan, J Li, H Deng… - Proceedings of the 22nd …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
We design and implement MobileInsight, a software tool that collects, analyzes and exploits
runtime network information from operational cellular networks. MobileInsight runs on …

Beyond throughput, the next generation: A 5G dataset with channel and context metrics

D Raca, D Leahy, CJ Sreenan, JJ Quinlan - Proceedings of the 11th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we present a 5G trace dataset collected from a major Irish mobile operator. The
dataset is generated from two mobility patterns (static and car), and across two application …

Screen-off traffic characterization and optimization in 3G/4G networks

J Huang, F Qian, ZM Mao, S Sen… - Proceedings of the 2012 …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Today's cellular systems operate under diverse resource constraints: limited frequency
spectrum, network processing capability, and handset battery life. We consider a novel and …

Performance of cellular networks on the wheels

M Ghoshal, I Khan, ZJ Kong, P Dinh, J Meng… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
After 4 years of rapid deployment in the US, 5G is expected to have significantly improved
the performance and overall user experience of mobile networks. However, recent …

Survey of end-to-end mobile network measurement testbeds, tools, and services

U Goel, MP Wittie, KC Claffy… - … Communications Surveys & …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …