| 1. |
- Alay, Özgü, et al.
(författare)
-
Experience : An open platform for experimentation with commercial mobile broadband networks
- 2017
-
Ingår i: MobiCom '17 Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. - New York : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 9781450349161 ; , s. 70-78
-
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Open experimentation with operational Mobile Broadband (MBB) networks in the wild is currently a fundamental requirement of the research community in its endeavor to address the need of innovative solutions for mobile communications. Even more, there is a strong need for objective data about stability and performance of MBB (e.g., 3G/4G) networks, and for tools that rigorously and scientifically assess their status. In this paper, we introduce the MONROE measurement platform: an open access and flexible hardware-based platform for measurements and custom experimentation on operational MBB networks. The MONROE platform enables accurate, realistic and meaningful assessment of the performance and reliability of 11 MBB networks in Europe. We report on our experience designing, implementing and testing the solution we propose for the platform. We detail the challenges we overcame while building and testing the MONROE testbed and argue our design and implementation choices accordingly. We describe and exemplify the capabilities of the platform and the wide variety of experiments that external users already perform using the system
|
|
| 2. |
- Alay, Özgü, et al.
(författare)
-
Measuring and Assessing Mobile Broadband Networks with MONROE
- 2016
-
Ingår i: 2016 IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile, and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM). - Red Hook : IEEE. - 9781509021864 - 9781509021857
-
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Mobile broadband (MBB) networks underpin numerous vital operations of the society and are arguably becoming the most important piece of the communications infrastructure. In this demo paper, our goal is to showcase the potential of a novel multi-homed MBB platform for measuring, monitoring and assessing the performance of MBB services in an objective manner. Our platform, MONROE, is composed of hundreds of nodes scattered over four European countries and a backend system that collects the measurement results. Through a user-friendly web client, the experimenters can schedule and deploy their experiments. The platform further embeds traffic analysis tools for real-time traffic flow analysis and a powerful visualization tool.
|
|
| 3. |
- Alay, Özgü, et al.
(författare)
-
MONROE, a distributed platform to measure and assess mobile broadband networks : demo
- 2016
-
Ingår i: Proceedings of the Tenth ACM International Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental Evaluation, and Characterization. - New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). - 9781450342520 ; , s. 85-86
-
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This demo presents the MONROE distributed platform and how it can be used to implement measurement and assessment experiments with operational mobile broadband networks (MBBs). MONROE provides registered experimenters with open access to hundreds of nodes, distributed over several European countries and equipped with multiple MBB connections, and a backend system that collects the measurement results. Experiments are scheduled through a user-friendly web client, with no need to directly access the nodes. The platform further embeds tools for real-time traffic flow analysis and a powerful visualization tool.
|
|
| 4. |
- Alcalá-Marín, Sergi, et al.
(författare)
-
Global Mobile Network Aggregators : Taxonomy, Roaming Performance and Optimization
- 2022
-
Ingår i: MobiSys 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services. - New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ; , s. 183-195
-
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- A new model of global virtual Mobile Network Operator (MNO) - the Mobile Network Aggregator (MNA) - has recently been gaining significant traction. MNAs provide mobile communications services to their customers by leveraging multiple MNOs, and connecting through the one that best match their customers’ needs at any point in time (and space). MNAs naturally provide optimized global coverage by connecting through local MNOs across the different geographic regions they provide service. In this paper, we dissect the operations of three MNAs, namely, Google Fi, Twilio and Truphone. We perform measurements using the three selected MNAs to assess their performance for three major applications, namely, DNS, web browsing and video streaming. We benchmark their performance comparing it to the one of a traditional MNO. We find that even MNAs provide some delay penalty compared to the service accessed through the local MNOs in the geographic area where the user is roaming, they can significantly improve performance compared to traditional roaming model of the MNOs (e.g. home routed roaming). Finally, in order to fully quantify the potential benefits that can be realized using the MNA model, we perform a set of emulations by deploying both control and user plane functions of open-source 5G implementations in different locations of AWS, and measure the potential gains.
|
|
| 5. |
- Fida, Mah-Rukh, et al.
(författare)
-
Demo : experimentation in controlled and operational LTE settings with FLEX-MONROE
- 2017
-
Ingår i: Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & Characterization WiNTECH '17. - New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ; , s. 93-94
-
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This demo paper presents FLEX-MONROE, a platform that facilitates better understanding of current LTE Mobile Broadband(MBB) networks and enables performance improvementsby allowing experimentation with controllable LTE parameters. The platform enables investigating impact oflow-level network parameter tweaks in LTE infrastructure onthe application performance. We argue that FLEX-MONROEis crucial to provide guidelines on improving application performance both in the current and future MBB networks
|
|
| 6. |
- Fida, Mah-Rukh, et al.
(författare)
-
FLEX-MONROE : A unified platform for experiments under controlled and operational LTE settings
- 2017
-
Ingår i: WiNTECH 2017 Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization. - New York, NY, USA : Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ; , s. 1-8
-
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper presents FLEX-MONROE, a unique platform that facilitates achieving a thorough understanding of LTE networks, one that captures the status of current operational MBB networks and that also enables LTE performance improvements by allowing experimentation in an environment with controllable LTE parameters. Using this platform, we propose to investigate how variations in the LTE network parameters influence the network characteristics, which, in turn, translate to application performance metrics that represent the end-user experience. We argue that the FLEX-MONROE platform is crucial to understand, validate and ultimately improve how current operational MBB networks perform, towards providing guidelines for designing future 5G architectures. Furthermore, understanding the effects of low-level tweaks in network parameters in the LTE infrastructure on the application performance is critical to provide guidelines on how to improve the application performance in the current but also future MBB networks
|
|
| 7. |
- Khatouni, Ali Safari, et al.
(författare)
-
Speedtest-like Measurements in 3G/4G Networks : the MONROE Experience
- 2017
-
Ingår i: 2017 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 29TH INTERNATIONAL TELETRAFFIC CONGRESS (ITC 29), VOL 1. - : IEEE. ; , s. 169-177
-
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Mobile Broadband (MBB) Networks are evolving at a fast pace, with technology enhancements that promise drastic improvements in capacity, connectivity, coverage, i.e., better performance in general. But how to measure the actual performance of a MBB solution? In this paper, we present our experience in running the simplest of the performance test: "speedtest-like" measurements to estimate the download speed offered by actual 3G/4G networks. Despite their simplicity, download speed measurements in MBB networks are much more complex than in wired networks, because of additional factors (e.g., mobility of users, physical impairments, diversity in technology, operator settings, mobile terminals diversity, etc.). We exploit the MONROE open platform, with hundreds of multihomed nodes scattered in 4 different countries, and explicitly designed with the goal of providing hardware and software solutions to run large scale experiments in MBB networks. We analyze datasets collected in 4 countries, over 11 operators, from about 50 nodes, for more than 2 months. After designing the experiment and instrumenting both the clients and the servers with active and passive monitoring tools, we dig into collected data, and provide insight to highlight the complexity of running even a simple speedtest. Results show interesting facts, like the occasional presence of NAT, and of Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEP), and pinpoint the impact of different network configurations that further complicate the picture. Our results will hopefully contribute to the debate about performance assessment in MBB networks, and to the definition of much needed benchmarks for performance comparisons of 3G, 4G and soon of 5G networks.
|
|
| 8. |
- Mancuso, Vincenzo, et al.
(författare)
-
Results from running an experiment as a service platform for mobile broadband networks in Europe
- 2019
-
Ingår i: Computer Communications. - : Elsevier. - 0140-3664 .- 1873-703X. ; 33, s. 89-101
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article we present a selection from a vast range of experiments run with MONROE, our open experiment as a service (EaaS) platform for measurements and experimentation in Mobile Broadband Networks. We show that the platform can be used to benchmark network performance in a repeatable and controlled manner thanks to the collection of a rich set of geotagged metadata and the execution of discretionary user experiments. Indeed, with the sheer amount of data collected from 12 commercial mobile operators across Europe, MONROE offers an unprecedented opportunity to monitor, analyze and ultimately improve the status of current and future mobile broadband networks. Besides, we show how flexibly the platform allows combining metadata and experimental data series during the experiments or by means of post-processing, and show results produced by our own experiments as well as comment on results obtained by external research groups and developers that have been granted access to our platform.
|
|
| 9. |
- Mandalari, Anna Maria, et al.
(författare)
-
Experience: Implications of Roaming in Europe
- 2018
-
Ingår i: MobiCom '18. Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking. - New York, USA : ACM Publications. - 9781450359030 ; , s. 179-189
-
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- "Roam like Home" is the initiative of the European Commission (EC) to end the levy of extra charges when roaming within the European region. As a result, people are able to use data services more freely across Europe. However, the implications roaming solutions have on performance have not been carefully examined. This paper provides an in-depth characterization of the implications of international data roaming within Europe. We build a unique roaming measurement platform using 16 different mobile networks deployed in six countries across Europe. Using this platform, we measure different aspects of international roaming in 3G and 4G networks, including mobile network configuration, performance characteristics, and content discrimination. We find that operators adopt common approaches to implementing roaming, resulting in additional latency penalties of ∼60 ms or more, depending on geographical distance. Considering content accessibility, roaming poses additional constraints that leads to only minimal deviations when accessing content in the original country. However, geographical restrictions in the visited country make the picture more complicated and less intuitive.
|
|
| 10. |
- Parastar, Paniz, et al.
(författare)
-
Spotlight on 5G : Performance, device evolution and challenges from a mobile operator perspective
- 2023
-
Ingår i: IEEE INFOCOM 2023. - New York : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. - 9798350334142 ; , s. 1-10
-
Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Fifth Generation (5G) has been acknowledged as a significant shift in cellular networks, expected to run significantly different classes of services and do so with outstanding performance in terms of low latency, high capacity, and extreme reliability. Managing the resulting complexity of mobile network architectures will depend on making efficient decisions at all network levels based on end-user requirements. However, to achieve this, it is critical to first understand the current mobile ecosystem and capture the device heterogeneity, which is one of the major challenges for ensuring the successful exploitation of 5G technologies.In this paper, we conduct a large-scale measurement study of a commercial mobile operator in the UK, focusing on bringing forward a real-world view on the available network resources, as well as how more than 30M end-user devices utilize the mobile network. We focus on the current status of the 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) deployment and the network-level performance and show how it caters to the prominent use cases that 5G promises to support. Finally, we demonstrate that a fine-granular set of requirements is, in fact, necessary to orchestrate the service to the diverse groups of 5G devices, some of which operate in permanent roaming.
|
|
