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

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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.

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            HotMobile '14: Proceedings of the 15th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
            February 2014
            134 pages
            ISBN:9781450327428
            DOI:10.1145/2565585

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