Despite the popularity of mobile applications, their performance and energy bottlenecks
remain hidden due to a lack of visibility into the resource-constrained mobile execution …

3G cellular data networks have recently witnessed explosive growth. In this work, we focus
on UMTS, one of the most popular 3G mobile communication technologies. Our work is the …

Cellular network operators are now expected to maintain a good Quality of Experience
(QoE) for many services beyond circuit-switched voice and messaging. However, new smart …

During crowded events, cellular networks face voice and data traffic volumes that are often
orders of magnitude higher than what they face during routine days. Despite the use of …

Despite its widespread adoption and popularity, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
suffers from fundamental performance limitations. SPDY, a recently proposed alternative to …

Smartphones have become increasingly prevalent and important in our daily lives. To meet
users' expectations about the Quality of Experience (QoE) of mobile applications (apps), it is …

Prefetching is a double-edged sword. It can hide the latency of data transfers over poor and
intermittently connected wireless networks, but the costs of prefetching in terms of increased …

The 3G/LTE wireless interface is a significant contributor to battery drain on mobile devices.
A large portion of the energy is consumed by unnecessarily keeping the mobile device's …

Cellular networks employ a specific radio resource management policy distinguishing them
from wired and Wi-Fi networks. A lack of awareness of this important mechanism potentially …

Mobile Internet applications run on devices such as smartphones and tablets, and have
dramatically changed the landscape of applicationgenerated network traffic. The potent …