Increasing the Coverage of Vantage Points in Distributed Active Network Measurements by Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourced network measurements: Benefits and best practices

“…Previous crowdsourcing studies [20,[40][41][42]45,47,48] following, we present a set of guidelines, which we developed to mitigate or avoid those problems.…”

“…For a second example, we use crowdsourcing users recruited from Microworkers.com and PlanetLab nodes to measure the YouTube CDN in [40]. Most of the available PlanetLab nodes were located in the US and Western Europe, whereas the crowdsourcing users were largely based in Asia-Pacific and Eastern Europe.…”

“…In contrast to voluntary participation, the costs for CNM are higher, but CNM enables a faster completion of the test. In [40], we describe a QoE experiment with both voluntary users from social networks and paid crowdsourcing users. Whereas it took approximately 26 days to acquire approximately 100 voluntary testers, the same task was completed within 36 h using a commercial crowdsourcing platform at a total cost of $16.…”