Geo-location-aware Emulations for Performance Evaluation of Mobile Applications
Alberto García Estévez and Niklas Carlsson
Paper:
Alberto García Estévez and Niklas Carlsson
"Geo-location-aware Emulations for Performance Evaluation of Mobile Applications",
Proc. IEEE/IFIP Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS),
Obergurgl, Austria, Apr. 2014.
(WONS version,
longer version)
Abstract:
This paper presents the design of a simple emulation framework for performance evaluation and testing of mobile applications.
Our testbed combines production hardware and software to allow emulation of realistic and repeatable mobility scenarios,
in which the mobile user can travel long distances, while being served by an application server.
The framework allows (i) geo-location information, (ii) client network conditions such as bandwidth and loss rate, as well as (iii)
the application workload to be emulated synchronously.
To illustrate the power of the framework we also present the design, proof-of-concept implementation, and evaluation of a geo-smart scheduler
for application updates in smartphones. This geo-smart scheduler reduces the average download time by using a network performance map to schedule the
downloads when at places with relatively good conditions.
Our trace-driven evaluation of the geo-smart scheduler, illustrates the workings of the emulation framework, and the potential of the geo-smart scheduler.
Software
The software and code used in our paper is made available
here
for use by the wider research community.
Please refer to our paper above
for a description of the different components and the experimental setup.
(Additional documentation is availible and/or will be added to the code
library during March 2014.)
Note: If you use our software or methodology in your research, please include a reference to our WONS 2014 paper
(pdf) in your work.