CI-SUSTAIN: Collaborative Research: Sustaining Successful Smartphone Testbeds to Enable Diverse Mobile Experiments

CI-SUSTAIN：协作研究：维持成功的智能手机测试平台以实现多样化的移动实验

• 批准号: 1629894
• 负责人: Geoffrey Challen
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Buffalo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-15 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1629894&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; SUSTAIN; Collaborative; Research; Sustaining

Today, smartphones are everywhere: connecting, informing, guiding, quantifying, and entertaining us. Vibrant smartphone software marketplaces put million of useful apps created by developers around the world at our fingertips. But while anyone can develop and deploy a smartphone app, apps rely on functionality provided by the underlying smartphone platform and operating system. The smartphone platform software is responsible conserving energy and prolonging battery lifetime, determining what network connection to use to balance speed and cost, accurately and efficiently determining the device?s location, and other critical tasks. Yet, the smartphone platform is closely controlled by smartphone vendors and so very difficult for researchers to modify or improve. PhoneLab addresses this experimental gap by allowing systems and networking researchers to modify the smartphone platform installed on several hundred users? primary smartphones. This project provides continued support for the PhoneLab community infrastructure testbed to operate for another year, while it pursues longer-term sustainability options.PhoneLab consists of several hundred University at Buffalo affiliates who act as participants. Participants carry smartphones running a custom Android platform image maintained by PhoneLab administrators. The PhoneLab platform image is maintained in collaboration with the mobile systems and networking community. At any point it contains a mixture of instrumentation to generate datasets as well as novel features and new capabilities that are being evaluated. Once projects are reviewed for human subjects safety, researchers can download datasets generated by their experiments or by previous experiments. During the period of the award, PhoneLab participants will be incentivized to join ongoing experiments by a discounted service plan provided by Sprint. During this project period, PhoneLab will be continuing to migrate from external to community sustainability while also improving the existing Android instrumentation.

今天，智能手机无处不在：连接，通知，指导，量化和娱乐我们。充满活力的智能手机软件市场让世界各地的开发人员开发的数百万个有用的应用程序触手可及。但是，尽管任何人都可以开发和部署智能手机应用程序，但应用程序依赖于底层智能手机平台和操作系统提供的功能。智能手机平台软件负责节省能源和延长电池寿命，确定使用什么网络连接来平衡速度和成本，准确有效地确定设备？的位置，以及其他关键任务。然而，智能手机平台由智能手机供应商密切控制，因此研究人员很难修改或改进。PhoneLab通过允许系统和网络研究人员修改安装在数百名用户上的智能手机平台来解决这一实验空白。主要智能手机该项目为PhoneLab社区基础设施测试平台提供持续支持，使其再运行一年，同时寻求长期的可持续性选择。PhoneLab由布法罗大学的数百个附属机构组成，他们作为参与者。参与者携带运行由PhoneLab管理员维护的自定义Android平台映像的智能手机。PhoneLab平台映像是与移动的系统和网络社区合作维护的。在任何时候，它都包含生成数据集的工具以及正在评估的新特性和新功能的混合物。一旦项目被审查为人类受试者的安全，研究人员可以下载由他们的实验或以前的实验生成的数据集。在奖励期间，PhoneLab参与者将通过Sprint提供的折扣服务计划参与正在进行的实验。在此项目期间，PhoneLab将继续从外部迁移到社区可持续性，同时还将改进现有的Android工具。