PePa ping: Android tool to take and predict periodic passive ping measurements

Abstract

Global increase in the use of mobile Internet service generates interest in mobile network studies to determine and forecast the QoS provided by mobile operators. This study present a method to take passive ping measurements in Android devices and proposes different methods to forecast two of the most important Internet QoS indicators obtained by the passive ping method: RTT and percentage of packets lost in TCP connections, based on other passive in-smartphone measurements.