Performance optimizations for wireless wide-area networks: comparative study and experimental evaluation

We present a comparative performance study of a wide selection of optimization techniques to enhance application performance in the context of wide-area wireless networks (WWANs). Unlike in traditional wired and wireless IPbased networks, applications running over WWAN cellular environments are significantly affected by the vagaries of the cellular wireless medium. Prior research has proposed and analyzed optimizations at individual layers of the protocol stack. In contrast, we introduce the first detailed experiment-based evaluation and comparison of all such optimization techniques in a commercial WWAN testbed. This paper, therefore, summarizes our experience in implementing and deploying an infrastructure to improve WWAN performance. The goals of this paper are: (1) to perform an accurate benchmark of application performance over such commercially deployed WWAN environments, (2) to implement and characterize the impact of various optimization techniques across different layers ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: MOBICOM
• Authors: Rajiv Chakravorty, Suman Banerjee, Pablo Rodriguez, Julian Chesterfield, Ian Pratt
• Keywords: MOBICOM 2004, Optimization Techniques, WWAN, WWAN Cellular Environments