Sharing airtime with Shair avoids wasting time and money
Proceedings of the 10th workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
On effectively exploiting multiple wireless interfaces in mobile hosts
Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
Characterizing radio resource allocation for 3G networks
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Netalyzr: illuminating the edge network
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
Mobile data offloading: how much can WiFi deliver?
Proceedings of the 6th International COnference
Broadband internet performance: a view from the gateway
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
An untold story of middleboxes in cellular networks
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
YouTube everywhere: impact of device and infrastructure synergies on user experience
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
The hare and the tortoise: taming wireless losses by exploiting wired reliability
MobiHoc '11 Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing
A close examination of performance and power characteristics of 4G LTE networks
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
TUBE: time-dependent pricing for mobile data
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Power-boosting residential wired broadband
Proceedings of the 8th ACM international workshop on Wireless network testbeds, experimental evaluation & characterization
Virtualizing the access network via open APIs
Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
3GOL: power-boosting ADSL using 3G onloading
Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
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Access link can often be the bottleneck for application performance. In this paper, we propose to augment wired connections using cellular ones, that we term "3G onloading (3GOL)". 3GOL utilizes available mobile devices and already-paid-for data volumes to augment and improve performance of applications on wired network. We motivate 3GOL by understanding bottlenecks present in the wired and the cellular networks. In order to understand the potential benefits of 3GOL, we conduct active experiments using mobile devices. We show that capacity gains can scale linearly with the number of devices on the downlink while also seeing improvements on the uplink. Using real traces we show how video on demand can benefit with 3GOL, even when volume caps are in place. We design 3GOL as an over the top service, and highlight research challenges.