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5G tracker: a crowdsourced platform to enable research using commercial 5g services

Published: 14 September 2021 Publication History

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While 5G has offered many opportunities for research, the majority of studies have been conducted with constrained experimental settings or done privately by 5G operators. Even a year after the launch of commercial 5G networks, research over commercial 5G has been limited due to the lack of publicly available tools and datasets. In this paper, we propose 5G Tracker - a crowdsourced platform intended to aid researchers in collecting and leveraging large-scale 5G datasets. This platform includes an Android app that records passive and active measurements tailored to 5G networks and research. We have been using 5G Tracker for over 8 months, during which time we have collected over 4 million data points, consuming over 50 TB of cellular data across multiple 5G carriers in the U.S. Our experience shows that 5G performance is affected by several user-side contextual factors besides location such as user mobility level, orientation, weather, location dynamics (e.g., moving vehicles), and environmental features such as pillars, foliage, and buildings. This is partly because mmWave signals (considered key to mainstream 5G) are known to be highly sensitive to obstructions and user mobility. These observations highlight the need to move towards building context-aware 5G performance prediction models that can provide guidance for decisions at various layers such as preemptive handoff, multi-path scheduling, tower placement, and "5G-aware" application development. Finally, we showcase the utility of our platform by building a first of kind, interactive 5G coverage mapping application as a case study driven by the data we collected, which is publicly available at: https://5gophers.umn.edu.

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SIGCOMM '20: Proceedings of the SIGCOMM '20 Poster and Demo Sessions
August 2020
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  1. 5G
  2. 5G tracker
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  4. 5Gophers
  5. crowd-sourcing
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  • (2023)5G Wings: Investigating 5G-Connected Drones Performance in Non-Urban Areas2023 IEEE 34th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)10.1109/PIMRC56721.2023.10294063(1-6)Online publication date: 5-Sep-2023
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