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PAM
2010
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
An Experimental Performance Comparison of 3G and Wi-Fi
Mobile Internet users have two options for connectivity: pay premium fees to utilize 3G or wander around looking for open Wi-Fi access points. We perform an experimental evaluation...
Richard Gass, Christophe Diot
IMC
2010
ACM
13 years 2 months ago
Performance comparison of 3G and metro-scale WiFi for vehicular network access
We perform a head-to-head comparison of the performance characteristics of a 3G network operated by a nation-wide provider and a metro-scale WiFi network operated by a commercial ...
Pralhad Deshpande, Xiaoxiao Hou, Samir R. Das
MOBISYS
2010
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Augmenting mobile 3G using WiFi
We investigate if WiFi access can be used to augment 3G capacity in mobile environments. We first conduct a detailed study of 3G and WiFi access from moving vehicles, in three dif...
Aruna Balasubramanian, Ratul Mahajan, Arun Venkata...
SIGCOMM
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Mobile data offloading: how much can WiFi deliver?
This is a quantitative study on the performance of 3G mobile data offloading through WiFi networks. We recruited about 100 iPhone users from a metropolitan area and collected stat...
Kyunghan Lee, Injong Rhee, Joohyun Lee, Yung Yi, S...
CONEXT
2009
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Cool-Tether: energy efficient on-the-fly wifi hot-spots using mobile phones
We consider the problem of providing ubiquitous yet affordable Internet connectivity to devices at home, at work, and on the move. In this context, we take advantage of two signif...
Ashish Sharma, Vishnu Navda, Ramachandran Ramjee, ...