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WMCSA '06 Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems & Applications
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Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking
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Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Tashi: location-aware cluster management
ACDC '09 Proceedings of the 1st workshop on Automated control for datacenters and clouds
3G and 3.5G wireless network performance measured from moving cars and high-speed trains
Proceedings of the 1st ACM workshop on Mobile internet through cellular networks
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Proceedings of the 3rd workshop on Mobile video delivery
Mobile data offloading: how much can WiFi deliver?
Proceedings of the 6th International COnference
Proceedings of the 10th ACM international symposium on Mobility management and wireless access
ThinAV: truly lightweight mobile cloud-based anti-malware
Proceedings of the 28th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference
A measurement of mobile traffic offloading
PAM'13 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Passive and Active Measurement
Mobile data offloading: how much can WiFi deliver?
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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Mobile Internet users have two options for connectivity: pay premium fees to utilize 3G or wander around looking for open Wi-Fi access points. We perform an experimental evaluation of the amount of data that can be pushed to and pulled from the Internet on 3G and open Wi-Fi access points while on the move. This side-by-side comparison is carried out at both driving and walking speeds in an urban area using standard devices. We show that significant amounts of data can be transferred opportunistically without the need of always being connected to the network. We also show that Wi-Fi mostly suffers from not being able to exploit short contacts with access points but performs comparably well against 3G when downloading and even significantly better while uploading data.