MOBILE NETWORK ANALYTICS FOR APPS PERFORMANCE DESIGN

2016

COMISION DE LAS COMUNIDADES EUROPEA

I+D COLAB. COMPETITIVA

Monserrat del Río José Francisco

Incorporación a un h2020 como partner asociado mediante la convocatoria del proyecto MONROE Mobile devices and notably smartphones have become cornerstones in our daily lives. Being able to access to real time information is taken for granted in our modern societies as a key enabler for economic and social development. From a pool of 55% of randomly picked Android apps, 84% require Internet access 1 ¿ Therefore, understanding mobile network performance is critical For providing a superior user experience and might in ultimate way determine the business success for an app, specially if it heavily depends on Internet access. FOR users, as already pointed out by MONROE call, is becoming popular using measurements network tools (like Netalyzr of MobiPerf) to determine problems in their connectivity. However, for Apps SW developers this approach has not yet become a standard procedure when debugging apps performance. While developers already analyse the user behaviour when using an app: usage frequency, time spent, used functionalities, etc and there are several well-known tools for this (like Yahoo Mobile, Mixpanel or Countly), these tools specifically focus in the user interaction with the app and do not provide data for an effective app tuning in terms of protocols, security, network usage, connectivity strategies, etc from a pure mobile network approach. There is thus an evident room and need for such dedicated tools and related knowledge. By NApplytics project EUROB and the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia will determine which are the KPI that govern an app User Experience considering both protocol and radio issues by means of an android library that could be easily incorporated to any Android app. In order to properly design the library and correctly identify all relevant parameters that may impact user experience the HW, SW and tools provided by MONROE will be essential in the project execution and results.