5G ON-OFF Experiments

Below are instructions to run “5G ON-OFF” experiments using mperf-any, one task supported by MI-LAB. If you need any technical support, please contact us at milab@cs.purdue.edu.

You are welcome to use public datasets collected in the past experiments in case you do not or cannot conduct 5G ON-OFF experiments.

  • Step 1: install mperf-any. Please refer to the guideline
  • Step 2: run mperf-any. Please refer to the guideline

    • In summary, you need to do three (four) things.
    • Start. Start running this task at test locations where you want to conduct experiments over 5G networks (stationary experiments recommended).
    • Stop. Stop this task whenever you want (likely after completing the experimentation time).
    • Check. (optional but strongly recommended). Check if the task runs normally when it is running.
    • Upload. It supports offline data uploading after you finish one or many taskrounds.
  • Tips and more information
    • Network access setup (one-time effort). Please enable mobile data and disable WiFi.
    • Register your own account (recommended). You can use GUEST or usernames provided by the MI-LAB team (username: mssn_5g1, password: MSSN_2025_5Gmeas).
    • Run stationary experiments at selected locations to avoid the impact of environamental and radio dynamics. We encourage to use other apps to check the serving cells over time (to check whether 5G ON-OFF switches occur).
    • Please run each experiment for 3-5 minutes or longer to capture multiple ON-OFF switches if applicable.
    • We recommend using file downloading as the default traffic load. If you want to test with other applications such as video or live streaming, change traffic setting to ping in mperf_any and run the target apps on the test phone.
  • Step 3: view (and download) data. Data logs will be available on your test phone and available at MI-LAB if uploaded
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