CRAWDAD: A Community Resource for Archiving Wireless Data at Dartmouth

TLDR

Wireless network researchers are seriously starved for data about how real users, applications, and devices use real networks under real network conditions. CRAWDAD is a new NSF‑funded project to build a wireless‑network data archive that hosts data and provides tools and documents to facilitate collection and use. CRAWDAD will host wireless data and provide tools and documents, and a workshop with about 30 participants at MobiCom 2005 was convened to discuss its direction. The resource should help researchers identify and evaluate real and interesting problems in mobile and pervasive computing.

Abstract

Wireless network researchers are seriously starved for data about how real users, applications, and devices use real networks under real network conditions. CRAWDAD (Community Resource for Archiving Wireless Data at Dartmouth) is a new National Science Foundation-funded project to build a wireless-network data archive for the research community. It will host wireless data and provide tools and documents to make collecting and using the data easy. This resource should help researchers identify and evaluate real and interesting problems in mobile and pervasive computing. To learn more about CRAWDAD and discuss its direction, about 30 interested people gathered at a workshop held in conjunction with MobiCom 2005.