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MPBond: efficient network-level collaboration among personal mobile devices

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Z. Morley MaoAuthors Info & Claims

MobiSys '20: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services

June 2020

Pages 364 - 376

https://doi.org/10.1145/3386901.3388943

Published: 15 June 2020 Publication History

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MPBond is an efficient system allowing multiple personal mobile devices to collaboratively fetch content from the Internet. For example, a smartwatch can assist its paired smartphone with downloading data. Inspired by the success of MPTCP, MPBond applies the concept of distributed multipath transport where multiple subflows can traverse different devices. We develop a cross-device connection management scheme, a buffering strategy, a packet scheduling algorithm, and a policy framework tailored to MPBond's architecture. We implement MPBond on commodity mobile devices such as Android smartphones and smartwatches. Our real-world evaluations using different workloads under various network conditions demonstrate the efficiency of MPBond. Compared to state-of-the-art collaboration frameworks, MPBond reduces file download time by 5% to 46%, and improves the video streaming bitrate by 2% to 118%. Meanwhile, it improves the energy efficiency by 10% to 57%.

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Index Terms

MPBond: efficient network-level collaboration among personal mobile devices
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Ubiquitous and mobile computing
    1. Ubiquitous and mobile computing systems and tools
2. Networks
  1. Network protocols
    1. Network protocol design
    2. Transport protocols

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Gambhir KRajore TChaudhary SJain TGupta AMaity MBhattacharya A(2023)NATIVE: Network Aggregation based Tiled Live Video Streaming2023 15th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS)10.1109/COMSNETS56262.2023.10041371(219-221)Online publication date: 3-Jan-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS56262.2023.10041371
Halder PHassan MRahman AAkter LAhmed AKhan SChatterjee SRaihan M(2023)Prospects and setbacks for migrating towards 5G wireless access in developing Bangladesh: A comparative studyThe Journal of Engineering10.1049/tje2.123192023:10Online publication date: 18-Oct-2023
https://doi.org/10.1049/tje2.12319
Aggarwal SSaha SKhan IPathak RKoutsonikolas DWidmer J(2022)MuSher: An Agile Multipath-TCP Scheduler for Dual-Band 802.11ad/ac Wireless LANsIEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking10.1109/TNET.2022.315867830:4(1879-1894)Online publication date: Aug-2022
https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2022.3158678

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