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Testing and profiling Internet
services in mobile devices
Almudena Daz and Pedro Merino
Dpto. Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Computacion,University of
Malaga,
Campus Teatinos, Malaga, Spain{pedro,almudiaz}@lcc.uma.es
http://lcc.uma.es/~pedro/mobile
Abstract. UMA proposes a novel testing facility based on normal
mo-
bile devices as testing nodes, exposing their functionalities
through anew technology agnostic control node (UMA controller).
This solutionwill provide a scheme to deploy experiments not only
on top of currentmobile technologies (e.g. UMTS, HSPA...) but also
over the upcomingLTE or LTE Advance standards as they are
introduced in the market.
Keywords: testing, facility, connectivity, performance, mobile
services
1 Introduction
Recently, the interest in packet data mobile services has grown
driven by key ap-plications such as VoIP or video streaming, as
opposed to circuit switched legacy
voice services. This trend is also in line with the evolution of
3GPP mobile tech-nologies, as there has been a clear move towards
All-IP mobile networks. Alsomobile data services have been shown to
provide high added value to citizens,complementing traditional
services provided by fixed networks. In this contextit is key to
ensure than the new improvements in the architecture of cellular
net-works provide appropriate capabilities for supporting advanced
mobile Internetservices assuring optimum levels of user
experience.
UMA (University of Malaga) is developing a testing facility for
supporting thecomplete development process of Internet services and
applications for mobiledevices.The facility is based on the
instrumentation of commercial mobile devicesand their use as
measurement tools. Currently the facility enables the executionof
manual measurement campaigns during the execution of data services
on
the instrumented mobiles, however the purpose is to provide a
remote accessto schedule and perform unattended measurement
campaigns. The facility isenvisioned to targets data connectivity
and performance over cellular networks(GSM, GPRS, UMTS, HSPA and
LTE), mobility procedures analysis, IP trafficmonitoring, code
inspection, energy consumption and location. At present
thefunctionality offered focuses on network, traffic, battery and
location monitoring.In future extensions of the facility it is
envisioned the need to include code related
