MIST: Cellular Data Network Measurement for Mobile Applications

Mike P. Wittie; Brett Stone-Gross; Kevin C. Almeroth; Elizabeth M. Belding

4th International IEEE Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, Systems

Research Article

MIST: Cellular Data Network Measurement for Mobile Applications

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2007.4550508,
    author={Mike P. Wittie and Brett Stone-Gross and Kevin C. Almeroth and Elizabeth M. Belding},
    title={MIST: Cellular Data Network Measurement for Mobile Applications},
    proceedings={4th International IEEE Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, Systems},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={BROADNETS},
    year={2010},
    month={5},
    keywords={},
    doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2007.4550508}
}

Mike P. Wittie
Brett Stone-Gross
Kevin C. Almeroth
Elizabeth M. Belding
Year: 2010
MIST: Cellular Data Network Measurement for Mobile Applications
BROADNETS
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2007.4550508

Mike P. Wittie¹^,*, Brett Stone-Gross¹^,*, Kevin C. Almeroth¹^,*, Elizabeth M. Belding¹^,*

1: Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-5110

*Contact email: mwittie@cs.ucsb.edu, bstone@cs.ucsb.edu, almeroth@cs.ucsb.edu, ebelding@cs.ucsb.edu

Abstract

The rapid growth in the popularity of cellular networks has led to aggressive deployment and a rapid expansion of mobile services. Services based on the integration of cellular networks into the Internet have only recently become available, but are expected to become very popular. One current limitation to the deployment of many of these services is poor or unknown network performance, particularly in the cellular portion of the network. Our goal in this paper is to motivate and present the Mobile Internet Services Test (MIST) platform, a new distributed architecture to measure and characterize cellular network performance as experienced by mobile devices. We have used MIST to conduct preliminary measurements; evaluate MIST’s effectiveness; and motivate further measurement research.

Published: 2010-05-16
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BROADNETS.2007.4550508