CI-ADDO-NEW: MobiLab -- A Global-Scale Live Laboratory to Support Mobile Computing Science

移动计算的重要性正在迅速增加，但由于评估新想法的难度，该领域的潜力受到了阻碍。移动计算系统的有效性取决于可变的网络、应用和用户行为，其中许多行为只有在大规模系统中才能看到。为了实现对移动计算和相关学科的变革性研究，该项目创建了一个全球规模的现场实验室，由移动设备、网络及其用户组成，将支持研究想法的验证。这个名为MobiLab的实时实验室有两个关键贡献：(1)它提供实时和存档的移动用户数据的在线存储库，包括特定位置的网络状况、每个应用程序的能源使用情况和用户行为等重要信息；(2)通过一套软件库和工具，它简化了开发、部署和评估研究应用程序的任务。研究人员无需重新构建应用程序来监控网络、应用程序、移动系统和用户行为，而是可以通过易于使用的应用程序编程接口(API)从MobiLab工具在线收集信息。目标社区包括多个学科的研究人员，如移动系统和网络、嵌入式系统、网络安全、移动数据隐私和社交网络。MobiLab既适合本科生密集实验的入门课程，也适合研究生水平的课程，让学生接触移动计算、分布式计算机系统设计和分布式传感。MobiLab还将通过为移动系统研究数据、社区创建的软件构件和基于数据的结果提供中央存储库，对研究社区产生持久的影响。

The importance of mobile computing is rapidly increasing but the field is held back from its potential by the difficulty of evaluating new ideas. The effectiveness of mobile computing systems depends on variable network, application, and user behaviors, many of which are only visible in large-scale systems. To enable transformative research on mobile computing and related disciplines, this project creates a global-scale live laboratory composed of mobile devices, networks, and their users that will support the validation of research ideas. This live laboratory, referred to as MobiLab, makes two key contributions: (1) it provides an online repository of real-time and archived mobile user data, including vital information such as location-specific network conditions, per-application energy usage, and user behavior and (2) through a set of software libraries and tools, it simplifies the tasks of developing, deploying and evaluating research applications. Instead of re-building applications to monitor network, application, mobile system, and user behavior, researchers can gather information online from MobiLab tools via easy-to-use application programming interfaces (APIs). The target communities include researchers in several disciplines, such as mobile systems and networks, embedded systems, network security, mobile data privacy, and social networking. MobiLab is suitable for both undergraduate lab-intensive introductory courses as well as graduate-level courses that expose students to mobile computing, distributed computer system design, and distributed sensing. MobiLab will also have a lasting impact on the research community by providing a central repository for mobile system research data, software artifacts created by the community, and results based on the data.