MITATE: Mobile Internet Testbed for Application Traffic Experimentation

Abstract

This paper introduces a Mobile Internet Testbed for Application Trac Experimentation (MITATE). MITATE is the first programmable testbed to support the prototyping of application communications between mobiles and cloud datacenters. We describe novel solutions to device security and resource sharing behind MITATE. Finally, we show how MITATE can answer network performance questions crucial to mobile application design.