LiveLabs: Building An In-Situ Real-Time Mobile Experimentation Testbed

• Main Authors: BALAN, Rajesh Krishna, MISRA, Archan, LEE, Youngki
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Mobile computing; Testbeds; Commercial airports; Mobile applications and services; Real-time experimentations; University campus; Computer Sciences; Higher Education; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2057; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3056/viewcontent/hotmobile2014_final38.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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 descriptionof the current LiveLabs status (> 700 active participants to date) as well as present some key lessons learned.