LiveLabs: building an in-situ real-time mobile experimentation testbed

  • Authors:
  • Rajesh Krishna Balan;Archan Misra;Youngki Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • Singapore Management University;Singapore Management University;Singapore Management University

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2014

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Abstract

We present LiveLabs, a mobile experimentation testbed that is currently deployed across our university campus with further deployments at a large shopping mall, a commercial airport, and a resort island soon to follow. The key goal of LiveLabs is to allow in-situ real-time experimentation of mobile applications and services that require context-specific triggers with real participants on their actual smart phones. We describe how LiveLabs works, and then explain the novel R&D required to realise it. We end with a description of the current LiveLabs status ( 700 active participants to date) as well as present some key lessons learned.