cniCloud: Querying the Cellular Network Information at Scale

TL;DR

cniCloud is a scalable cloud platform that collects, stores, and enables querying of detailed cellular network data from numerous mobile devices, facilitating large-scale cellular analytics.

Contribution

It introduces a cloud-based system that crowdsources cellular data from mobile devices and provides efficient SQL-like querying capabilities for large-scale cellular network analysis.

Findings

Feasibility demonstrated through preliminary deployments.

Optimized database storage for responsive queries.

Supports large-scale crowdsourced cellular data analytics.

Abstract

This paper presents cniCloud, a cloud-based platform for mobile devices to share and query the fine-grained cellular information at scale. cniCloud extends the single-device cellular analytics via crowdsourcing: It collects the fine-grained cellular network data from massive mobile devices, aggregates them in a cloud-based database, and provides interfaces for end users to run an SQL-like query over the cellular data. It offers efficient and responsive processing by optimizing the database storage and adopting the domain-specific optimizations. Our preliminary deployments and experiments validate its feasibility in performing crowdsourced analytics.