NDLI: On the accuracy of smartphone-based mobile network measurement

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Weichao Li Mok, R.K.P. Daoyuan Wu Chang, R.K.C.
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Comput., Hong Kong Polytech. Univ., Hong Kong, China (Weichao Li; Mok, R.K.P.; Daoyuan Wu; Chang, R.K.C.)
Abstract	As most of mobile apps rely on network connections for their operations, measuring and understanding the performance of mobile networks is becoming very important for end users and operators. Despite the availability of many measurement apps, their measurement accuracy has not received sufficient scrutiny. In this paper, we appraise the accuracy of smartphone-based network performance measurement using the Android platform and the network round-trip time as the metric. We use a multiple-sniffer testbed to overcome the challenge of obtaining a complete trace for acquiring the required timestamps. Our experiment results show that the RTTs measured by the apps are all inflated, ranging from a few milliseconds (ms) to tens of milliseconds. Moreover, the 95% confidence interval can be as high as 2.4ms. A finer-grained analysis reveals that the delay inflation can be introduced both in the Dalvik VM (DVM) and below the Linux kernel. The in-DVM overhead can be mitigated but the other cannot be. Finally, we propose and implement a native app which uses HTTP messages for network measurement, and the delay inflation can be kept under 5ms for almost all cases.
Starting Page	370
Ending Page	378
File Size	505888
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479983810
DOI	10.1109/INFOCOM.2015.7218402
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-04-26
Publisher Place	Hong Kong
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Delays Smart phones Accuracy Clocks Servers Wireless communication Kernel
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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