Evaluating the benefits of the locator/identifier separation
Proceedings of 2nd ACM/IEEE international workshop on Mobility in the evolving internet architecture
Augmenting mobile 3G using WiFi
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services
Intentional networking: opportunistic exploitation of mobile network diversity
Proceedings of the sixteenth annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Mobile data offloading: how much can WiFi deliver?
Proceedings of the 6th International 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
A Requirement-Based Socket API for a Transition to Future Internet Architectures
IMIS '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Sixth International Conference on Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing
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In today's Internet, almost all end devices have multiple interfaces built in. This enables users to seamlessly switch between different access networks or even use them simultaneously; to better use the resources available to them and to better satisfy their needs. This is referred to as mobile data offloading and has received lots of attention recently in both the research community and in the industry. However, all the proposed data solutions either rely on static configuration policies or are reactive rather than proactive with regards to the application needs. In this paper, we propose a proactive, application informed approach, Socket Intents. Socket Intents augment the socket interface to enable the application to express what it knows about its communication patterns and preferences. This information can then be used by our proactive policies to choose the appropriate interface, tune the network parameters, or even combine multiple interfaces. We provide a prototype implementation of our Socket Intents and present a first evaluation of the Intents and its benefits.