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Experience: Android Resists Liberation from Its Primary Use Case

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Veronica Jacome,

Matthew Podolsky,

Aley Soud Nassor,

Catherine Wolfram,

Duncan Callaway,

Prabal DuttaAuthors Info & Claims

MobiCom '18: Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

Pages 545 - 556

https://doi.org/10.1145/3241539.3241583

Published: 15 October 2018 Publication History

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Abstract

Network connectivity is often one of the most challenging aspects of deploying sensors. In many countries, cellular networks provide the most reliable, highest bandwidth, and greatest coverage option for Internet access. While this makes smartphones a seemingly ideal platform to serve as a gateway between sensors and the cloud, we find that a device designed for multi-tenant operation and frequent human interaction becomes unreliable when tasked to continuously run a single application with no human interaction, a seemingly counter-intuitive result. Further, we find that economy phones cannot physically withstand continuous operation, resulting in a surprisingly high rate of permanent device failures in the field. If these observations hold more broadly, they would make mobile phones poorly suited to a range of sensing applications for which they have been rumored to hold great promise.

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Index Terms

Experience: Android Resists Liberation from Its Primary Use Case
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Ubiquitous and mobile computing
    1. Empirical studies in ubiquitous and mobile computing
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Software infrastructure
        Middleware
        Embedded middleware

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MobiCom '18: Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking

October 2018

884 pages

ISBN:9781450359030

DOI:10.1145/3241539

General Chairs:
Rajeev Shorey
TCS Innovation Labs, India
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Rohan Murty
Soroco, USA/India
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Yingying (Jennifer) Chen
WINLAB, Rutgers University, USA
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Kyle Jamieson
Princeton University, USA

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