NSF Workshop on Mobile Community Infrastructure

该项目资助了一个关于移动社区测量基础设施的研讨会，以满足日益增长的需求，即提高对网络行为的可见性，以支持移动计算的尖端研究。研讨会将汇集学术界和工业界的顶尖研究人员以及政府的政策制定者，讨论对这种基础设施的要求，并确定在实现已确定的目标方面取得进展的具体步骤。鉴于移动计算的研究主题多种多样，我们将确保在研讨会上充分代表不同的研究领域和所有重要的网络层(例如，物理层、MAC层、网络层、传输层和应用层)，以确保讨论取得成果。灵活的测量基础设施对实验的支持对于启用和支持研究工作至关重要，这些研究工作具有强大的实验组件，以帮助在实践中验证想法和评估设计。移动计算的研究工作必须在尽可能真实的网络环境中进行评估，以帮助研究人员了解信号强度、网络负载等各种因素如何影响感兴趣的性能和能量指标。目前，还没有从蜂窝网络协议栈的端到端角度实现网络可见性的环境：从终端设备一直到遍历各种网络元素的网络服务器。缺乏这样一个完整的测量基础设施，极大地阻碍了这一重要研究领域的创新。由于设计仪器以支持研究人员在移动计算方面的不同需求并非易事，研讨会帮助定义了移动测量基础设施的目标和要求，该基础设施的设计可持续至少10年，以支持该领域的尖端研究。

This project funds a workshop on mobile community measurement infrastructure to respond to the growing needs for increased visibility into network behavior to enable cutting-edge research in mobile computing. The workshop will bring together the top researchers in both academia and industry, as well as policy makers from government, to discuss the requirements for such an infrastructure and identify the concrete steps to make progress towards the identified goals. Given the diverse research topics within mobile computing, we will ensure that different research areas and all the important network layers (e.g., physical, MAC, network, transport, and application) are adequately represented at the workshop to ensure a productive outcome from the discussions.Flexible measurement infrastructure support for experimentation are critical for enabling and supporting research work with strong experimental components to help validate ideas and evaluate the design in practice. Mobile computing research work must be evaluated in as realistic network settings as possible to help researchers understand how various factors such as signal strength, network load affect the performance and energy metrics of interest. Currently, there is no environment that enables network visibility from an end-to-end perspective of the cellular network protocol stack: from the end-device all the way to the network server traversing through various network elements. The lack of such an integrated measurement infrastructure greatly hinders the innovation in this important research field. Because it is not trivial to design instrumentation to support diverse needs of researchers in mobile computing, the workshop helps define the goals and requirements of a mobile measurement infrastructure that is designed to last at least 10 years to support cutting-edge research in this space.