The community cellular networks volunteers and researchers currently rarely have an access to information about the networks for each site. This makes it difficult for them to evaluate network performance, identify outrages and downtimes, or even to show the current site locations. In this paper, we propose the Community Cellular Networks Coverage Visualizer, a performance dashboard to help reduce the workload of technicians and gain trust from illustrating the reliability of the networks. The map displays the overall and in-depth performance for each current and future CCNs sites with privacy-focused implementation, while the multi-series line chart emphasizes on providing the capability of network overtime. Not only it will help users identify locations that have stronger and reliable signals nearby, but our applicaiton will also be an essential tool for volunteers and engineers to determine the optimal locations to install a new site and quickly identify possible network failures.
翻译:目前,社区蜂窝网络的志愿者和研究人员通常难以获取各站点的网络信息。这使得他们难以评估网络性能、识别服务中断与停机情况,甚至无法直观展示现有站点位置。本文提出社区蜂窝网络覆盖可视化工具——一种性能仪表板,旨在通过展示网络可靠性来减轻技术人员的工作负担并增强用户信任。该地图以注重隐私保护的方式展示现有及规划中CCN站点的整体与深度性能,而多序列折线图则着重提供网络随时间变化的性能监测能力。该工具不仅可帮助用户识别周边信号更强、更稳定的区域,还将成为志愿者和工程师确定新站点最佳部署位置、快速定位潜在网络故障的重要工具。