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LTE or WiFi? Client-Side Internet Link Selection for Smartphones

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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.

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Acknowledgment

This work was funded by the Polish National Centre for Research and Development, under research grant nr LIDER/10/194/L-3/11/: project “Optimization and load balancing in next generation wireless networks”, http://projekty.iitis.pl/zosb.

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  1. The Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Bałtycka 5, 44-100, Gliwice, Poland

    Paweł Foremski & Krzysztof Grochla

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Foremski, P., Grochla, K. (2015). LTE or WiFi? Client-Side Internet Link Selection for Smartphones. In: Gaj, P., Kwiecień, A., Stera, P. (eds) Computer Networks. CN 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 522. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19419-6_5

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