Creating a usable analysis application built on an existing visualization platform

Abstract: The advances in research on wireless communications has lead up to the current success of 4G mobile broadband and is currently focusing on designing the upcoming even more advanced fifth generation (5G) networks. The type of research behind this typically generates large quantities of data and requires efficient analysis in order to achieve tangible results. To enable this analysis, visualization of the data is used to give the researchers the needed insights. For this master thesis project an existing platform will be analyzed with the goal of, by utilizing the platform, creating a powerful, useful analysis application with the necessary and desired tools. The platform can access data produced from research simulations and visualize them through different types of useful charts. However, it has up until now lacked some important functionality, mainly letting the user modify and alter the visualization to aid in the analysis. It furthermore requires knowledge and experience before being useful. To solve this, there existed a need of extending the platform with new tools and functionality to give the user more control and possibilities and to simplify the usage. The thesis resulted in a functioning analysis application that gives the user many necessary features to effectively analyze data. The result fulfilled the set requirements with improved and added views, extended tools and optimized performance.