Measurements and analysis of end-to-end Internet dynamics
Measurements and analysis of end-to-end Internet dynamics
End-to-end available bandwidth: measurement methodology, dynamics, and relation with TCP throughput
Proceedings of the 2002 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
An empirical evaluation of wide-area internet bottlenecks
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Self-management in chaotic wireless deployments
Proceedings of the 11th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A measurement study of vehicular internet access using in situ Wi-Fi networks
Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Characterizing residential broadband networks
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
FatVAP: aggregating AP backhaul capacity to maximize throughput
NSDI'08 Proceedings of the 5th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
Mark-and-sweep: getting the "inside" scoop on neighborhood networks
Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Link-alike: using wireless to share network resources in a neighborhood
ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review
ARBOR: hang together rather than hang separately in 802.11 wifi networks
INFOCOM'10 Proceedings of the 29th conference on Information communications
Fair WLAN backhaul aggregation
Proceedings of the sixteenth annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
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Residential broadband links are characterized by low and variable upload capacity and large latencies, leading to poor video performance. Aggregating multiple backhaul links using 802.11 Access Points has been considered as a solution to increasing the backhaul capacity limit. In this paper, we revisit the problem of backhaul aggregation in the context of interactive applications. We present the IdleChat architecture that uses wireless connectivity to aggregate idle broadband connectivity in a neighborhood to overcome the limits of individual asymmetric broadband uplinks. In contrast to prior work, IdleChat aggregates in a traffic-aware manner, focussing specifically on low-latency, real-time link aggregation in support of interactive applications such as video chat. IdleChat schedules packets in a deadline-aware manner to improve interactivity. We evaluate IdleChat both in an experimental testbed in our lab and in a residential deployment. Our results show that use of IdleChat in existing deployments can improve video SNR by up to a factor of 10 db in the presence of a single neighboring AP. This results in video quality improvement from a MOS score of bad to excellent.