A transport layer approach for achieving aggregate bandwidths on multi-homed mobile hosts
Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Transport Level Mechanisms for Bandwidth Aggregation on Mobile Hosts
ICNP '01 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Network Protocols
Estimating loss rates with TCP
ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review
MAR: a commuter router infrastructure for the mobile Internet
Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
A network layer approach to enable TCP over multiple interfaces
Wireless Networks
Design and implementation of a socket-level bandwidth aggregation mechanism for wireless networks
WICON '06 Proceedings of the 2nd annual international workshop on Wireless internet
An optimal deployable bandwidth aggregation system
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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Wireless Intelligent Networks Center, Nile University, Smart Village, Egypt Many of today's mobile devices are equipped with multiple network interfaces that can be used to connect to the Internet, including Ethernet, WiFi, 3G, and Bluetooth. However, current operating systems, such as Windows and Linux, typically choose only one of the available network interfaces and assign all the traffic to it, even if more than one is connected to the Internet. This results in an obvious under utilization of the available bandwidth. Different bandwidth aggregation techniques suggested altering different layers of the TCP/IP stack which requires applying modifications on the client's stack and/or the cloud, which cannot be widely deployed easily. In this work, we present DNIS, a networking middleware that achieves bandwidth aggregation using per-TCP connection scheduling on different interfaces in a way that is transparent to both the user and the applications. DNIS is composed of two main components: (1) a parameter estimator that estimates the applications' characteristics and requirements as well as interfaces' properties; (2) a scheduler that uses the estimated parameters to assign different TCP connections to network interfaces. We present an implementation for DNIS for the Windows OS and show its performance for different scheduling algorithms. Our initial results show significant enhancement of the overall device's throughput, up to 54%, increasing resource utilization and enhancing the user's experience.