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，以满足日益增长的对网络行为可见性的需求，从而使移动计算领域的前沿研究成为可能。该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决策者，讨论这种基础设施的需求，并确定朝着确定的目标取得进展的具体步骤。考虑到移动计算研究领域的多样性，我们将确保不同的研究领域和所有重要的网络层（例如，物理、MAC、网络、传输和应用）在研讨会上得到充分的代表，以确保讨论产生富有成效的结果。支持实验的灵活测量基础设施对于启用和支持具有强大实验组件的研究工作至关重要，以帮助在实践中验证想法和评估设计。移动计算研究工作必须在尽可能现实的网络环境中进行评估，以帮助研究人员了解各种因素，如信号强度、网络负载如何影响性能和感兴趣的能量指标。目前，还没有一种环境能够从蜂窝网络协议栈的端到端角度支持网络可见性：从终端设备一直到遍历各种网络元素的网络服务器。这种集成测量基础设施的缺乏极大地阻碍了这一重要研究领域的创新。因为设计仪器以支持移动计算研究人员的不同需求并非易事，因此研讨会有助于定义移动测量基础设施的目标和要求，该基础设施的设计要持续至少10年，以支持该领域的前沿研究。

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.