TY - CPAPER
AU - Pawel Foremski
AU - Krzysztof Grochla
AU - Piotr Gaj
AB - Current mobile phones and tablets are equipped with two technologies for accessing the Internet: WiFi and Cellular. Deciding which of these two interfaces provides faster data transfer is often non-trivial, but most of the currently used devices use a simple priority scheme that prefers WiFi to Cellular. In this paper, we propose a novel system that automatically selects the best link available in the current user location. The system periodically probes the bandwidth available on both links and makes statistical predictions, while avoiding excessive data and battery usage. We experimentally validated our approach using a dedicated application for Android.
BT - Computer Networks
CY - Springer International Publishing Switzerland
LA - eng
N1 - 22nd International Conference, CN 2015 Brunów, Poland, June 16-19, 2015
N2 - Current mobile phones and tablets are equipped with two technologies for accessing the Internet: WiFi and Cellular. Deciding which of these two interfaces provides faster data transfer is often non-trivial, but most of the currently used devices use a simple priority scheme that prefers WiFi to Cellular. In this paper, we propose a novel system that automatically selects the best link available in the current user location. The system periodically probes the bandwidth available on both links and makes statistical predictions, while avoiding excessive data and battery usage. We experimentally validated our approach using a dedicated application for Android.
PP - Springer International Publishing Switzerland
PY - 2015
EP - 43–53
T2 - Computer Networks
TI - LTE or WiFi? Client-Side Internet link selection for smartphones.
ER -