Despite the extensive characterization of the growth of cellular network traffic, we observe
two important trends not yet thoroughly investigated. First, fueled by the LTE technology and …

Recent popularity of smartphones drives rapid growth in the demand for cellular network
bandwidth. Unfortunately, due to the centralized architecture of cellular networks, increasing …

The problem of overbuffering in the current Internet (termed as bufferbloat) has drawn the
attention of the research community in recent years. Cellular networks keep large buffers at …

Multipath TCP enables smartphones to simultaneously use both WiFi and LTE to exchange
data over a single connection. This provides bandwidth aggregation and more importantly …

To cope with recent exponential increases in demand for mobile data, wireless Internet
service providers (ISPs) are increasingly changing their pricing plans and deploying Wi-Fi …

Recent advances in mobile technologies such as 5G and WiFi 6E do not seem to deliver the
promised mobile access bandwidth. To effectively characterize mobile access bandwidth in …

Real time interactive cloud-based mobile applications such as augmented reality and cloud
gaming require low and stable latency, especially in urban areas. These conditions are …

Ever growing mobile users, devices and applications lead to tremendous volume of mobile
network traffic nowadays. Current cellular network infrastructure is facing the problem of …

Mobile broadband networks, although increasingly popular, suffer large fluctuations in
performance. Download speeds can drop by 50% or more during peak hours. Hence …

Human communication has changed by the advent of smartphones. Using commonplace
mobile device features, they started uploading large amounts of content that increases. This …