Network Measurements and Analysis Due: 13 March 2016

Experimenting with monitoring and data collection in wireless networks(e.g., use of tcpdump, iwlist).

Traces: packet_header.txt http_requests.txt

Fitting data into probability distributions Due: 20 March 2016

Statistical analysis of wireless network measurements(e.g., statistics, CDFs, fitting. QQplots, Kullback-Liebler tests).

Usefull material: probability_and_statistics_lecture.pdf

MATLAB functions: statistics.rar

Traces: cell0_2.txt, Syslog_data.txt

User arrival process in campus wide wifi networks Due: 27 March 2016

Modeling user arrivals with a Poisson process

Usefull material: probability_and_statistics_lecture.pdf

Traces: Syslog_data.txt

Positioning Due: 3 April 2016

Experimenting with positioning technologies for mobile computing(e.g., RSSI-based, fingerprinting techniques).

Related files: Signal Strength Measurements

CORLAB

CoRLAB focues on the development of a multi-layer modeling framework and simulation platform that enables the instantiation of various wireless access markets and their analysis with business-driven and technology criteria.

Related publications:

• George Fortetsanakis, Markos Katsoulakis, Maria Papadopouli. A novel multi-layer framework for modeling the evolution of spectrum markets and cognitive-radio devices. IEEE DySPAN, Aachen, Germany, May 3-6, 2011
• A game-theoretical modeling framework and simulation platform for cellular-based access markets

Forthroid

A QR-code based Information Access System for Smart Phones.

Related publications:

• Anastasios Alexandridis, Paulos Charonyktakis, Antonis Makrogiannakis, Artemis Papakonstantinou, and Maria Papadopouli. Forthroid on Android: A QR-code based Information Access System for Smart Phones, IEEE LANMAN 2011, Chapell Hill, North Carolina, USA, October 13-14, 2011.

u-map

A user-centric QoE-driven geo-database system with cross-layer network measurements.