Paper Info
Title
On effectively exploiting multiple wireless interfaces in mobile hosts
Abstract
Most mobile devices today are equipped with multiple and heterogeneous wireless interfaces. In this paper we ask the following question: what is the best approach to leverage the multiple interfaces available at a mobile device in terms of the performance delivered to the user? In answering the question we argue that simple "bandwidth aggregation" approaches do not provide any meaningful benefits when the multiple interfaces used have highly disparate bandwidths as is true in many practical environments. We then present super-aggregation, a set of mechanisms that in tandem use the multiple interfaces intelligently and in the process is able to achieve a performance that is "better than the sum of throughputs" achievable through each of the interfaces individually. We prototype super-aggregation on both a laptop and the Google Android mobile phone and demonstrate the significant (up to 3x throughput) performance improvements it provides in real-world experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1658939.1658977
CoNEXT
Keywords
Field
DocType
performance improvement,disparate bandwidths,multiple interface,google android mobile phone,best approach,multiple wireless interface,mobile device,mobile host,bandwidth aggregation,prototype super-aggregation,present super-aggregation,following question
Mobile identification number,Mobile computing,Mobile technology,Mobile search,Mobile station,Computer science,Computer network,Mobile device,Mobile phone,Mobile Web
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
37
1.81
18
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cheng-Lin Tsao11329.97
Raghupathy Sivakumar22679340.00