CI-ADDO-NEW: PhantomNet: An End-to-End Mobile Network Testbed

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The importance of mobile devices and the mobile networks that support themcan hardly be overemphasized. Despite fantastic advances in wirelesstechnologies and mobile devices, current mobile network architectures,while packet based, overwhelmingly resemble their circuit-switched forebears.To enable the fundamental research and innovation demanded to advancemobile networking beyond the state-of-the-art, a new facility called PhantomNet,will be developed and coupled with the Emulab testbed at the University of Utah.PhantomNet will be a fully programmable end-to-end mobile testbed withunique features to facilitate research efforts at the intersectionof mobile networking, cloud computing and software defined networking.PhantomNet will enable hands-on teaching in mobile networkingtechnology in a manner that simply does not exist today. Further,the facility will enable forward-thinking research that re-considersthe technical and economic factors involved with the interplaybetween mobile networks, software defined networks and cloud technologies.The availability of a physical facility will help researchers totransition new mobile network designs from theory into practice.Given that a large fraction of the world's population are alreadyusers of such networks, and that fraction is growing, the researchenabled by this infrastructure will have the potential to have trulytransformative impact.