PhoneLab: A large programmable smartphone testbed

Anandatirtha Nandugudi, Anudipa Maiti, Taeyeon Ki, Fatih Bulut, Murat Demirbas, Tevfik Kosar, Chunming Qiao, Steven Y. Ko, Geoffrey Challen

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Abstract

As smartphones have emerged as the most widely deployed mobile computing platform, the scale of smartphone experimentation has lagged behind. New facilities enabling large-scale experiments are needed to ensure that research discoveries translate to the billions of smartphones in use today. To meet this challenge, we introduce PhoneLab, a 288-device smartphone testbed deployed at the University at Buffalo. PhoneLab provides access to smartphone users incentivized to participate in experiments while simplifying experiment data collection. The testbed will open for public experimentation in October, 2013, and continue to expand in 2014. To demonstrate the power of PhoneLab, we present three selected results from a usage characterization experiment run on 115 phones for 21 days. We use each result to motivate a future PhoneLab experiment, demonstrating how PhoneLab will enable mobile systems research.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSenseMine 2013 - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Sensing and Big Data Mining
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Print)9781450324304
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event1st International Workshop on Sensing and Big Data Mining, SenseMine 2013 - Rome, Italy
Duration: Nov 11 2013Nov 15 2013

Publication series

NameSenseMine 2013 - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Sensing and Big Data Mining

Other

Other1st International Workshop on Sensing and Big Data Mining, SenseMine 2013
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityRome
Period11/11/1311/15/13

Keywords

  • Smartphones
  • mobile devices
  • testbed

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software

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