Abstract
The unprecedented growth in smartphone usage has fueled a massive increase in cellular network traffic volumes. We investigate the feasibility of applying Redundancy Elimination (RE) for today’s smartphone traffic, using packet traces collected from 20 real mobile users for five months. For various RE techniques including caching, file compression, delta encoding, and packet stream compression, we present the first characterization of their individual effectiveness, the interaction among multiple jointly applied RE techniques, and their performance on mobile handsets. By leveraging several off-the-shelf RE techniques operating at different layers, we can achieve an overall reduction of smartphone traffic by more than 30%.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Invest in Cell Phone Infrastructure for Growth in 2010 (2010), http://pennysleuth.com/invest-in-cell-phone-infrastructure-for-growth-in-2010/
Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) specification. 3GPP TS 25.323
SPDY: An experimental protocol for faster web, http://dev.chromium.org/spdy
Cisco Visual Networking Index (2012), http://newsroom.cisco.com/press-release-content?type=webcontent&articleId=668380
Aggarwal, B., Akella, A., Anand, A., Balachandran, A., Chitnis, P., Muthukrishnan, C., Ramjee, R., Varghese, G.: EndRE: An End-System Redundancy Elimination Service for Enterprises. In: NSDI (2010)
Anand, A., Gupta, A., Akella, A., Seshan, S., Shenker, S.: Packet Caches on Routers: The Implications of Universal Redundant Traffic Elimination. In: SIGCOMM (2008)
Anand, A., Sekar, V., Akella, A.: SmartRE: An Architecture for Coordinated Network-wide Redundancy Elimination. In: SIGCOMM (2009)
Anand, A., Muthukrishnan, C., Ramjee, R.: Redundancy in Network Traffic: Findings and Implications. In: SIGMETRICS (2009)
Deutsch, P.: DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3. RFC 1951 (1996)
Erman, J., Gerber, A., Hajiaghayi, M., Pei, D., Sen, S., Spatscheck, O.: To Cache or not to Cache: The 3G case. IEEE Internet Computing (2011)
Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Masinter, H.F.L., Leach, P., Berners-Lee, T.: Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1. RFC 2616 (1999)
Gember, A., Anand, A., Akella, A.: A Comparative Study of Handheld and Non-handheld Traffic in Campus Wi-Fi Networks. In: Spring, N., Riley, G.F. (eds.) PAM 2011. LNCS, vol. 6579, pp. 173–183. Springer, Heidelberg (2011)
Korn, D., MacDonald, J., Mogul, J., Vo, K.: The VCDIFF Generic Differencing and Compression Data Format. RFC 3284 (2002)
Lumezanu, C., Guo, K., Spring, N., Bhattacharjee, B.: The Effect of Packet Loss on Redundancy Elimination in Cellular Wireless Networks. In: IMC (2010)
Mogul, J., Douglis, F., Feldmann, A., Krishnamurthy, B.: Potential benefits of delta encoding and data compression for HTTP. In: SIGCOMM (1997)
Mogul, J., Krishnamurthy, B., Douglis, F., Feldmann, A., Goland, Y., van Hoff, A., Hellerstein, D.: Delta encoding in HTTP. RFC 3229 (2002)
Qian, F., Quah, K.S., Huang, J., Erman, J., Gerber, A., Mao, Z.M., Sen, S., Spatscheck, O.: Web Caching on Smartphones: Ideal vs. Reality. In: Mobisys (2012)
Sanadhya, S., Sivakumar, R., Kim, K.H., Congdon, P., Lakshmanan, S., Singh, J.P.: Asymmetric Caching: Improved Network Deduplication for Mobile Devices. In: Mobicom (2012)
Spring, N.T., Wetherall, D.: A Protocol-Independent Technique for Eliminating Redundant Network Traffic. In: SIGCOMM (2000)
Zohar, E., Cidon, I., Mokryn, O.O.: The Power of Prediction: Cloud Bandwidth and Cost Reduction. In: SIGCOMM (2011)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Qian, F., Huang, J., Erman, J., Mao, Z.M., Sen, S., Spatscheck, O. (2013). How to Reduce Smartphone Traffic Volume by 30%?. In: Roughan, M., Chang, R. (eds) Passive and Active Measurement. PAM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7799. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36516-4_5
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36516-4_5
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-36515-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-36516-4
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)