On effectively exploiting multiple wireless interfaces in mobile hosts

CL Tsao, R Sivakumar - Proceedings of the 5th international conference …, 2009 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Bandwidth aggregation for real-time applications in heterogeneous wireless networks

K Chebrolu, RR Rao - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A variety of wireless interfaces are available for today's mobile user to access Internet
content. When coverage areas of these different technologies overlap, a terminal equipped …

What goes around comes around: Mobile bandwidth sharing and aggregation

K Habak, KA Harras, M Youssef - 2015 IEEE 12th International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The exponential increase in mobile data demand, coupled with growing user expectation to
be connected in all places at all times, have introduced novel challenges for researchers to …

Exploiting multiple wireless interfaces in smartphones for traffic offloading

S Sharafeddine, K Jahed, N Abbas… - … Sea Conference on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Smartphones are evolving at a fast rate in terms of their computational, storage, and
communications capabilities. A high-end smartphone is equipped with multiple wireless …

A transport layer approach for achieving aggregate bandwidths on multi-homed mobile hosts

HY Hsieh, R Sivakumar - Proceedings of the 8th annual international …, 2002 - dl.acm.org
Due to the availability of a wide variety of wireless access technologies, a mobile host can
potentially have subscriptions and access to more than one wireless network at a given time …

Bandwidth aggregation techniques in heterogeneous multi-homed devices: A survey

K Habak, KA Harras, M Youssef - Computer Networks, 2015 - Elsevier
The widespread deployment of various networking technologies, coupled with the
exponential increase in end-user data demand, have led to the proliferation of multi-homed …

Design and implementation of a socket-level bandwidth aggregation mechanism for wireless networks

H Sakakibara, M Saito, H Tokuda - Proceedings of the 2nd annual …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
This paper proposes a mechanism to aggregate bandwidth of multiple network interfaces on
a computer. Recently one single computer entails multiple different wireless network …

Bandwidth aggregation in heterogeneous wireless networks: A survey of current approaches and issues

AL Ramaboli, OE Falowo, AH Chan - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2012 - Elsevier
Future wireless networks are envisaged to consist of a variety of integrated and jointly
managed radio access technologies (RATs). This is motivated by the complementary …

An application layer protocol for energy-efficient bandwidth aggregation with guaranteed quality-of-experience

Z Tang, Z Wang, P Li, S Guo, X Liao… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
WiFi and cellular networks are pervasively provided for mobile Internet access. Although
most existing mobile devices are equipped with both WiFi and cellular network interfaces …

Multinets: A system for real-time switching between multiple network interfaces on mobile devices

S Nirjon, A Nicoara, CH Hsu, JP Singh… - ACM Transactions on …, 2014 - dl.acm.org
MultiNets is a system supporting seamless switch-over between wireless interfaces on
mobile devices in real-time. MultiNets is configurable to run in three different modes:(i) …