MobiTest : an evaluation infrastructure for mobile distributed applications

Sophisticated applications that run on mobile devices have become commonplace. Within the wide realm of mobile software applications there exists a significant number that make use of networking in some form. Unfortunately, such distributed mobile applications are inherently difficult to evaluate. Conventional evaluations of such distributed applications are limited to small, real-world deployments consisting of, perhaps, a handful of phones. Such tests often do not have the requisite number of users to produce the desired performance. Also, these experiments do not scale and are not repeatable. To address all these issues, we sought to evaluate distributed applications in a virtual environment. Besides being cheaper, such evaluations are reproducible and scale significantly better. This thesis documents our efforts in working towards this goal. We discuss the designs that we iterated through, along with the problems we faced in each of them. We hope these problems will inform future designs that can solve the challenges that we weren't able to solve efficiently.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2012

Author dc:creator

• Sivaraman Kaushalram, Anirudh

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Li-Shiuan Peh.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/78536

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/78536