Adaptive congestion control for unpredictable cellular networks

Y Zaki, T Pötsch, J Chen, L Subramanian… - Proceedings of the 2015 …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Legacy congestion controls including TCP and its variants are known to perform poorly over
cellular networks due to highly variable capacities over short time scales, self-inflicted …

Anatomizing application performance differences on smartphones

J Huang, Q Xu, B Tiwana, ZM Mao, M Zhang… - Proceedings of the 8th …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
The use of cellular data networks is increasingly popular due to the widespread deployment
of 3G technologies and the rapid adoption of smartphones, such as iPhone and GPhone …

Bartendr: a practical approach to energy-aware cellular data scheduling

A Schulman, V Navda, R Ramjee, N Spring… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
Cellular radios consume more power and suffer reduced data rate when the signal is weak.
According to our measurements, the communication energy per bit can be as much as 6x …

Cell vs. WiFi: On the performance of metro area mobile connections

J Sommers, P Barford - Proceedings of the 2012 internet measurement …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Cellular and 802.11 WiFi are compelling options for mobile Internet connectivity. The goal of
our work is to understand the performance afforded by each of these technologies in diverse …

PROTEUS: network performance forecast for real-time, interactive mobile applications

Q Xu, S Mehrotra, Z Mao, J Li - Proceeding of the 11th annual …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
Real-time communication (RTC) applications such as VoIP, video conferencing, and online
gaming are flourishing. To adapt and deliver good performance, these applications require …

Mobile network performance from user devices: A longitudinal, multidimensional analysis

A Nikravesh, DR Choffnes, E Katz-Bassett… - Passive and Active …, 2014 - Springer
In the cellular environment, operators, researchers and end users have poor visibility into
network performance for devices. Improving visibility is challenging because this …

Performance comparison of 3G and metro-scale WiFi for vehicular network access

P Deshpande, X Hou, SR Das - Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
We perform a head-to-head comparison of the performance characteristics of a 3G network
operated by a nation-wide provider and a metro-scale WiFi network operated by a …

An empirical study of bandwidth predictability in mobile computing

J Yao, SS Kanhere, M Hassan - … of the third ACM international workshop …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
While bandwidth predictability has been well studied in static environments, it remains
largely unexplored in the context of mobile computing. To gain a deeper understanding of …

Experiences in a 3G network: interplay between the wireless channel and applications

X Liu, A Sridharan, S Machiraju, M Seshadri… - Proceedings of the 14th …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
We present an experimental characterization of the physical and MAC layers in CDMA 1xEV-
DO and their impact on transport layer performance. The 1xEV-DO network is currently the …

An analysis of cloud gaming platforms behaviour under synthetic network constraints and real cellular networks conditions

X Marchal, P Graff, JR Ky, T Cholez, S Tuffin… - Journal of Network and …, 2023 - Springer
With the recent technological evolutions in networks and increased deployment of multi-tier
clouds, cloud gaming (CG) is gaining renewed interest and is expected to become a major …