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Topher White (son of Bebo White) is convinced that we/he could install the PingER software on the Android phone/OS. He literally has 100's of them that have been donated to his project. The delays will be very different. It will be fascinating to try and understand what parameters determine the delays and losses, quantify the information and compare with wired MAs. Initially the phones would be stationary and use WiFi (thus eliminating roving effects, and cell phone coverage). The power use and availability of smartphones could make it a very interesting platform for PingER.
Measurement Agent
It is basically a cheap, small, low power PingER Measurement Agent (MA) at a fixed location. A difference, however, is that the Android MA would probably not have a fixed wired connection to the network, rather communicating by wireless presumably to some local WiFi router. If the ePingER is to move araound it will need to add its location (lat/long) to the data records. This will need to be done in a way that is backward compatible (i.e. the additional can be easily filtered out and ignored by existing applications.
Power
Smart phones are very energy efficient because they are designed to run on a battery for a long period of time. For a smartphone battery with 1650mAh and a voltage of 3.7V (typical cell phone battery voltage 3-5V) the Wattage for an 8 hour talk time on 3G is 0.76 W.
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