Paper Info
Title
A disruption-tolerant transmission protocol for practical mobile data offloading
Abstract
The explosive popularity of smartphones and mobile devices drives massive growth in the wide-area mobile data communication. Unfortunately, the current or near-future 3G/4G networks are deemed insufficient to meet the increasing data transfer demand. While opportunistic offloading of mobile data through Wi-Fi is an attractive option, the existing transport layer would experience frequent disconnections due to mobility, making it hard to support seamlessly reliable data delivery. As a result, many mobile applications either depend on ad-hoc downloading resumption mechanisms or redundantly re-transfer the same content when disruptions happen. In this paper, we present DTP, a disruption-tolerant, reliable transport layer protocol that masks the failures of the preferred network. Unlike previous disruption/delay-tolerant protocols, DTP provides the same semantics as TCP on an IP packet level when the mobile device is connected to a network while providing the illusion of continued connection even if the underlying physical network becomes unavailable. This would help the mobile application developers to focus on the application core rather than addressing the frequent network disruptions. It would also greatly reduce the phone network costs both to ISPs and end users. Our current implementation in UDP shows a comparable performance to that of TCP in network, and it greatly reduces the delay and power consumption when the mobile devices frequently switch from one network to another.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2159576.2159590
MobiOpp
Keywords
Field
DocType
wide-area mobile data communication,increasing data transfer demand,disruption-tolerant transmission protocol,phone network cost,mobile application developer,mobile device,practical mobile data,underlying physical network,frequent network disruption,preferred network,mobile application,mobile data,delay tolerant network,mobility,transport layer,data transfer
Mobile computing,Mobile IP,Delay-tolerant networking,Computer science,Computer network,Mobile data offloading,Network architecture,Small cell,Radio access network,Mobile broadband
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
16
1.09
14
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Younghwan Go1404.02
YoungGyoun Moon2363.60
Giyoung Nam3192.17
KyoungSoo Park4119873.47