Survey of end-to-end mobile network measurement testbeds, tools, and services

U Goel, MP Wittie, KC Claffy… - … Communications Surveys & …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile (cellular) networks enable innovation, but can also stifle it and lead to user frustration
when network performance falls below expectations. As mobile networks become the …

Studying TLS usage in Android apps

A Razaghpanah, AA Niaki… - Proceedings of the 13th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Transport Layer Security (TLS), has become the de-facto standard for secure Internet
communication. When used correctly, it provides secure data transfer, but used incorrectly, it …

Towards a SPDY'ier mobile web?

J Erman, V Gopalakrishnan, R Jana… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Despite its widespread adoption and popularity, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
suffers from fundamental performance limitations. SPDY, a recently proposed alternative to …

[PDF][PDF] Haystack: In situ mobile traffic analysis in user space

A Razaghpanah, N Vallina-Rodriguez… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2015 - Citeseer
Despite our growing reliance on mobile phones for a wide range of daily tasks, we remain
largely in the dark about the operation and performance of our devices, including how (or …

Tracking the trackers: Towards understanding the mobile advertising and tracking ecosystem

N Vallina-Rodriguez, S Sundaresan… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
Third-party services form an integral part of the mobile ecosystem: they allow app
developers to add features such as performance analytics and social network integration …

ACACIA: context-aware edge computing for continuous interactive applications over mobile networks

J Cho, K Sundaresan, R Mahindra… - Proceedings of the 12th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
There is widespread agreement that future continuous interactive (CI) applications will
require edge computing capabilities from mobile networks. There is also widespread …

[PDF][PDF] Machine-Learning Based Approaches for Anomaly Detection and Classification in Cellular Networks.

P Casas, P Fiadino, A D'Alconzo - TMA, 2016 - bigdama.ait.ac.at
Despite the long literature and assorted list of proposed systems for performing detection
and classification of anomalies in operational networks, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are …

Is there a case for mobile phone content pre-staging?

A Finamore, M Mellia, Z Gilani… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Content caching is a fundamental building block of the Internet. Caches are widely deployed
at network edges to improve performance for end-users, and to reduce load on web servers …

Discovering fine-grained RRC state dynamics and performance impacts in cellular networks

S Rosen, H Luo, QA Chen, ZM Mao, J Hui… - Proceedings of the 20th …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
To conserve power while ensuring good performance on resource-constrained mobile
devices, devices transition between different Radio Resource Control (RRC) states in …

Haystack: A multi-purpose mobile vantage point in user space

A Razaghpanah, N Vallina-Rodriguez… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2015 - arxiv.org
Despite our growing reliance on mobile phones for a wide range of daily tasks, their
operation remains largely opaque. A number of previous studies have addressed elements …