SystemSens: a tool for monitoring usage in smartphone research deployments

Authors:
Hossein Falaki;Ratul Mahajan;Deborah Estrin
Affiliations:
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA;Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA;UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Venue:
MobiArch '11 Proceedings of the sixth international workshop on MobiArch
Year:
2011

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Abstract

By deploying several research applications, we found that capturing usage context (e.g., CPU and memory) is highly valuable for debugging and interpreting results, even if that context information appears unrelated to the application. We have developed a general tool called SystemSens to help researchers capture usage context in their deployments in an extendible way. This paper describes and motivates the design choices underlying our tool and evaluates its overheads in terms of phone resources and data.