Introduction of 5G measurement tools and dataset

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The measurement tools and dataset released here are used to support the SIGCOMM20's paper Understanding Operational 5G: A First Measurement Study on Its Coverage, Performance and Energy Consumption

ACM Reference Format: Dongzhu Xu, Anfu Zhou, Xinyu Zhang, GuixianWang, Xi Liu, Congkai An, Yiming Shi, Liang Liu, Huadong Ma. 2020. Understanding Operational 5G: A First Measurement Study on Its Coverage, Performance and Energy Consumption. In Annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication (SIGCOMM ’20), August 10–14, 2020, Virtual Event, NY, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 16 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3387514.3405882

We expect this release can help other researchers further understand and optimize the 5G networks.

Outline

Our open source includes:

1. A series of 5G measurement tools.

2. Traces collected from our measurement tools. Specifically,

   (i) XCAL-Mobile traces, which are used in Sec. 3 ("5G coverage") and Sec. 6 ("5G smartphone energy consumption").

   (ii) Packet traces from Wireshark, iperf3 and traceroute, which are used in Sec. 4 ("End-to-end throughput and delay") and Sec. 5 ("Application performance").

   (iii) Power traces from pwrStrip, which are utilized in Sec. 6("5G smartphone energy consumption").

Please refer to README.md in the folder (measurement tools/measurement dataset) for detailed user tutorials.

Statement

Please indicate the source-link when using it and cite our SIGCOMM paper. In addition, please contact [email protected] for any questions. We will provide detailed answers as soon as possible.