The Living Laboratory: A holistic approach for understanding the performance of future Mobile services and networks

This paper presents the Mobile Services Living Laboratory - a practical approach for evaluating service provision in cellular networks. Our approach promotes an end-to-end view of the system by providing an effective means to store information from both terminal and network sides, together with integrated mechanisms for retrieving feedback on user-perceived service quality. The current implementation of the Living Laboratory is described and evaluated. Further, we show how the Living Laboratory is used to investigate both the effectiveness of context-aware opportunistic content delivery schemes in cellular networks, and the coexistence between M2M and user-generated traffic.