AirLab: Consistency, Fidelity and Privacy in Wireless Measurements
Vinod Kone
Mariya Zheleva
Mike Wittie
Ben Y. Zhao
Elizabeth Belding
Haitao Zheng
Kevin Almeroth
ACM Computer Communication Review (CCR), Vol. 41, No. 1, Pgs. 60-65, January 2011
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Paper Abstract
Accurate measurements of deployed wireless networks are vital for
researchers to perform realistic evaluation of proposed systems.
Unfortunately, the difficulty of performing detailed measurements limits
the consistency in parameters and methodology of current datasets. Using
different datasets, multiple research studies can arrive at conflicting
conclusions about the performance of wireless systems. Correcting this
situation requires consistent and comparable wireless traces collected
from a variety of deployment environments. In this paper, we describe
AirLab, a distributed wireless data collection infrastructure that uses
uniformly instrumented measurement nodes at heterogeneous locations to
collect consistent traces of both standardized and user-defined
experiments. We identify four challenges in the AirLab platform,
consistency, fidelity, privacy, security,
and describe our approaches to address them.