IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
P4p: provider portal for applications
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
Sharing airtime with Shair avoids wasting time and money
Proceedings of the 10th workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications
Proceedings of the 10th ACM conference on Electronic commerce
On dominant characteristics of residential broadband internet traffic
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
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
Inter-datacenter bulk transfers with netstitcher
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 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
Traffic-driven power saving in operational 3G cellular networks
MobiCom '11 Proceedings of the 17th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
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
TUBE: time-dependent pricing for mobile data
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Cognitive bias in network services
Proceedings of the 11th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
When David helps Goliath: the case for 3G onloading
Proceedings of the 11th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
Cell vs. WiFi: on the performance of metro area mobile connections
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM conference on Internet measurement conference
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The co-existence of cellular and wired networks has been exploited almost exclusively in the direction of OffLoading traffic from the former onto the latter. In this paper we claim that there exist cases that call for the exact opposite, i.e, use the cellular network to assist a fixed wired network. In particular, we show that by "OnLoading'' traffic from the wired broadband network onto the cellular network we can usefully speedup wired connections, on the downlink or the uplink. We consider the technological challenges pertaining to this idea and implement a prototype 3G OnLoading service that we call 3GOL, that can be deployed by an operator providing both the wired and cellular network services. By strategically OnLoading a fraction of the data transfers to the 3G network, one can significantly enhance the performance of particular applications. In particular we demonstrate non-trivial performance benefits of 3GOL to two widely used applications: video-on-demand and multimedia upload. We also consider the case when the operator that provides wired and cellular services is different, adding the analysis on economic constraints and volume cap on cellular data plans that need to be respected. Simulating 3GOL}over a DSLAM trace we show that 3GOL can reduce video pre-buffering time by at least 20% for 50% of the users while respecting data caps and we design a simple estimator to compute the daily allowance that can be used towards 3GOL while respecting caps. Our prototype is currently being piloted in 30 households in a large European city by a large network provider.