NeTS: EAGER: MITATE: Mobile Internet Testbed for Application Traffic Experimentation

这个项目创建了一个移动互联网应用流量实验测试平台（MITATE）——一个大规模的移动应用原型平台。MITATE将使开发人员能够评估协议设计选择、应用程序部署替代方案和组件移动性机制——所有这些都在跨越地理区域、运营商和设备的实时移动网络中进行。MITATE还将降低在生产网络中对移动设备进行实验的障碍，从而使计算研究界受益。MITATE允许对移动设备和云基础设施端点之间的自定义移动应用程序流量进行实验，应用程序后端逻辑部署在这些端点上。MITATE被设计为一个协作框架，参与者贡献他们的移动网络资源，并被允许反过来在其他设备上运行他们的流量实验。MITATE设计，特别是针锋相对的数据信用系统和流量生成功能与应用逻辑的分离，将确保安全和自扩展的测试平台运行。该测试平台将使蒙大拿州立大学对自优化低延迟协议进行新颖而引人注目的研究。

This project creates a Mobile Internet Testbed for Application Traffic Experimentation (MITATE) - a large-scale mobile application prototyping platform. MITATE will enable developers to evaluate protocol design choices, application deployment alternatives, and component mobility mechanisms - all in live mobile networks spanning geographic areas, carriers, and devices. MITATE will also benefit the computing research community by lowering the barrier to experimentation on mobile devices in production networks.MITATE allows experimentation with custom mobile application traffic between mobile devices and cloud infrastructure endpoints, on which application back-end logic is deployed. MITATE is designed as a collaborative framework, in which participants contribute their mobile network resources and are allowed, in turn, to run their traffic experiments on others devices. The MITATE design, specifically the tit-for-tat data credit system and the separation of traffic generation functionality from application logic, will ensure safe and self-scaling testbed operation. This testbed will enable novel and compelling research at Montana State University on self-optimizing low latency protocols.