Energy consumption in mobile phones: a measurement study and implications for network applications
Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
Profiling resource usage for mobile applications: a cross-layer approach
MobiSys '11 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
An untold story of middleboxes in cellular networks
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2011 conference
Identifying diverse usage behaviors of smartphone apps
Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet measurement conference
A close examination of performance and power characteristics of 4G LTE networks
Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
RadioJockey: mining program execution to optimize cellular radio usage
Proceedings of the 18th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
An in-depth study of LTE: effect of network protocol and application behavior on performance
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 conference on SIGCOMM
Towards a SPDY'ier mobile web?
Proceedings of the ninth ACM conference on Emerging networking experiments and technologies
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FIN and RST packets that close TCP connections are often delayed by timeout. In cellular networks, delayed FIN/RST packets often incur significant energy consumption overhead for handsets. On the other hand, closing TCP connection immediately after its last data transfer avoids the energy overhead, but can cause performance degradation as doing so makes reusing TCP connections difficult. To resolve such a dilemma, we propose a novel TCP extension called STC (Silent TCP connection Closure) using which both endpoints close a TCP connection silently without exchanging FIN or RST packets after timeout. Our solution is lightweight, backward-compatible, and incrementally deployable. It requires modifications to smartphone operation systems, but, if supported by cellular middleboxes, no change to remote servers. We evaluate the benefits of STC using a 10-day real trace consisting of 0.6 million LTE user sessions. When fully deployed, STC can save the overall handset radio energy consumption by up to 11.3% and reduce the network-wide signaling load by up to 6.0%.