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Boosting Application Performance using Heterogeneous Virtual Channels: Challenges and Opportunities

Authors:

William Sentosa,

Milind Kumar Vaddiraju,

Debopam Bhattacherjee,

Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran,

Brighten Godfrey,

Shubham TiwariAuthors Info & Claims

HotNets '23: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks

Pages 139 - 146

https://doi.org/10.1145/3626111.3628193

Published: 28 November 2023 Publication History

Abstract

Interactive networked applications require high throughput, low latency, and high reliability from the network to provide a seamless user experience. While meeting these three requirements simultaneously is difficult, there has been an emergence of heterogeneous virtual channels (HVCs) which support some subset of them at the expense of the others. For instance, URLLC sacrifices throughput to achieve low latency and reliability in 5G NR, and Wi-Fi 7 and other novel Internet architectures provide similar disparate types of service. Prior work either focuses on aggregating the bandwidth of these channels whilst neglecting their unique properties or fails to generalize in the sense of achieving high performance across different applications and channels. To utilize HVCs to their fullest, we argue that there are challenges and opportunities across the network, transport and application layers, and the application-transport interface of the network stack. In this work, we explore the trade-offs of these architectural choices in the context of web browsing and real-time video, and identify the constituting principles of a design that is general, performant, and deployable.

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Vaddiraju MSentosa WJiang QAdve SCavalcanti DDas DGodfrey PRamirez-Perez JVasisht D(2025)Is WTSN the missing piece for low latency in general-purpose Wi-Fi?Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications10.1145/3708468.3711879(79-84)Online publication date: 26-Feb-2025
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Maghsoudnia AVlad EGong ADumitriu DHassanieh H(2024)Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency in 5G: A Close Reality or a Distant Goal?Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks10.1145/3696348.3696862(111-120)Online publication date: 18-Nov-2024
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Vaddiraju MSentosa WJiang QAdve SCavalcanti DDas DGodfrey PRamirez-Perez JVasisht D(2025)Is WTSN the missing piece for low latency in general-purpose Wi-Fi?Proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications10.1145/3708468.3711879(79-84)Online publication date: 26-Feb-2025
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3708468.3711879
Maghsoudnia AVlad EGong ADumitriu DHassanieh H(2024)Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency in 5G: A Close Reality or a Distant Goal?Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks10.1145/3696348.3696862(111-120)Online publication date: 18-Nov-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3696348.3696862

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