AVP: An Android virtual playground

Abstract

This paper presents a virtual test-bed for the Android platform named AVP - Android Virtual Playground. The focus of AVP is the automatization of the manipulations required to perform a network experiment, in a very broad sense, involving Android virtual devices. A central objective of AVP is data collection during experiments. Together with describing the different steps of using AVP, from the specification of the experiment to the visualization of the results, the paper presents the current capabilities of AVP.