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Conference Paper: More is Better? Measurement of MPTCP based Cellular Bandwidth Aggregation in the Wild
Title | More is Better? Measurement of MPTCP based Cellular Bandwidth Aggregation in the Wild |
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Issue Date | 2016 |
Publisher | IEEE. |
Citation | The 13th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2016), Brasilia, Brazil, 10-13 October 2016. In Conference Proceedings, 2016, p. 1-9 How to Cite? |
Abstract | 4G/3G networks have been widely deployed around the world to provide high wireless bandwidth for mobile users. However, the achievable 3G/4G bandwidth is still much lower than their theoretic maximum. Signal strengths and available backhaul capacities may vary significantly at different locations and times, often leading to unsatisfactory performance. Bandwidth aggregation, which uses multiple interfaces concurrently for data transfer, is a readily deployable solution. Specifically, Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP) has been advocated as a promising approach for leveraging multiple source-destination paths simultaneously in the transport layer. In this paper, we investigate the efficiency of an MPTCP-based bandwidth aggregation framework based on extensive measurements. In particular, we evaluate the gain for bandwidth aggregation across up to 4 cellular operators’ networks, with respect to factors such as time, user location, data size, aggregation proxy location and congestion control algorithm. Our measurement studies reveal that (1) bandwidth aggregation in general improves the cellular network bandwidth experienced by mobile users, but the performance gain is significant only for bandwidth-intensive delay-tolerant flows; (2) the effectiveness of aggregation depends on many network factors, including QoS of individual cellular interfaces and the location of aggregation proxy; (3) contextual factors, including the time of day and the mobility of a user, also affect the aggregation performance. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/230544 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Niu, Z | - |
dc.contributor.author | Wang, Z | - |
dc.contributor.author | Xu, H | - |
dc.contributor.author | Wu, C | - |
dc.contributor.author | Lau, FCM | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-23T14:17:39Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-08-23T14:17:39Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The 13th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2016), Brasilia, Brazil, 10-13 October 2016. In Conference Proceedings, 2016, p. 1-9 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/230544 | - |
dc.description.abstract | 4G/3G networks have been widely deployed around the world to provide high wireless bandwidth for mobile users. However, the achievable 3G/4G bandwidth is still much lower than their theoretic maximum. Signal strengths and available backhaul capacities may vary significantly at different locations and times, often leading to unsatisfactory performance. Bandwidth aggregation, which uses multiple interfaces concurrently for data transfer, is a readily deployable solution. Specifically, Multi-Path TCP (MPTCP) has been advocated as a promising approach for leveraging multiple source-destination paths simultaneously in the transport layer. In this paper, we investigate the efficiency of an MPTCP-based bandwidth aggregation framework based on extensive measurements. In particular, we evaluate the gain for bandwidth aggregation across up to 4 cellular operators’ networks, with respect to factors such as time, user location, data size, aggregation proxy location and congestion control algorithm. Our measurement studies reveal that (1) bandwidth aggregation in general improves the cellular network bandwidth experienced by mobile users, but the performance gain is significant only for bandwidth-intensive delay-tolerant flows; (2) the effectiveness of aggregation depends on many network factors, including QoS of individual cellular interfaces and the location of aggregation proxy; (3) contextual factors, including the time of day and the mobility of a user, also affect the aggregation performance. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | IEEE. | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems, IEEE MASS 2016 Proceedings | - |
dc.rights | IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems, IEEE MASS 2016 Proceedings. Copyright © IEEE. | - |
dc.rights | ©2016 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. | - |
dc.title | More is Better? Measurement of MPTCP based Cellular Bandwidth Aggregation in the Wild | - |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
dc.identifier.email | Wu, C: cwu@cs.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.email | Lau, FCM: fcmlau@cs.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Wu, C=rp01397 | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Lau, FCM=rp00221 | - |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 261732 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 9 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.customcontrol.immutable | sml 160908 | - |