Random early detection gateways for congestion avoidance
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
TCP Vegas: new techniques for congestion detection and avoidance
SIGCOMM '94 Proceedings of the conference on Communications architectures, protocols and applications
Multi-layer tracing of TCP over a reliable wireless link
SIGMETRICS '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
TCP/IP performance over 3G wireless links with rate and delay variation
Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
PIHSN '02 Proceedings of the 7th IFIP/IEEE International Workshop on Protocols for High Speed Networks
A receiver-centric transport protocol for mobile hosts with heterogeneous wireless interfaces
Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Emulating low-priority transport at the application layer: a background transfer service
Proceedings of the joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
FAST TCP: motivation, architecture, algorithms, performance
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
Characterizing residential broadband networks
Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
CUBIC: a new TCP-friendly high-speed TCP variant
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review - Research and developments in the Linux kernel
Experiences in a 3G network: interplay between the wireless channel and applications
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Energy consumption in mobile phones: a measurement study and implications for network applications
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Anatomizing application performance differences on smartphones
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
3G/HSPA performance in live networks from the end user perspective
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
Netalyzr: illuminating the edge network
IMC '10 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement
ICTCP: Incast Congestion Control for TCP in data center networks
Proceedings of the 6th International COnference
Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers in the Internet
IEEE Internet Computing
Cellular data network infrastructure characterization and implication on mobile content placement
Proceedings of the ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
TCP Congestion Avoidance Algorithm Identification
ICDCS '11 Proceedings of the 2011 31st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Broadband internet performance: a view from the gateway
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
Queue - Networks
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
An in-depth study of LTE: effect of network protocol and application behavior on performance
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM
A measurement-based study of MultiPath TCP performance over wireless networks
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Internet measurement conference
First impressions on the state of cellular data connectivity in India
Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development
Dissecting Bufferbloat: measurement and per-application breakdown of queueing delay
Proceedings of the 2013 workshop on Student workhop
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The problem of overbuffering in the current Internet (termed as bufferbloat) has drawn the attention of the research community in recent years. Cellular networks keep large buffers at base stations to smooth out the bursty data traffic over the time-varying channels and are hence apt to bufferbloat. However, despite their growing importance due to the boom of smart phones, we still lack a comprehensive study of bufferbloat in cellular networks and its impact on TCP performance. In this paper, we conducted extensive measurement of the 3G/4G networks of the four major U.S. carriers and the largest carrier in Korea. We revealed the severity of bufferbloat in current cellular networks and discovered some ad-hoc tricks adopted by smart phone vendors to mitigate its impact. Our experiments show that, due to their static nature, these ad-hoc solutions may result in performance degradation under various scenarios. Hence, a dynamic scheme which requires only receiver-side modification and can be easily deployed via over-the-air (OTA) updates is proposed. According to our extensive real-world tests, our proposal may reduce the latency experienced by TCP flows by 25% ~ 49% and increase TCP throughput by up to 51% in certain scenarios.