A disruption-tolerant transmission protocol for practical mobile data offloading
Younghwan Go, Y.S. Moon, Giyoung Nam, KyoungSoo Park · 2012
The explosive popularity of smartphones and mobile devices drives massive growth in the wide-area mobile data communication. Unfortunately, the current or near-future 3G/4G networks are deemed insufficient to meet the increasing data transfer demand. While opportunistic offloading of mobile data through Wi-Fi is an attractive option, the existing transport layer would experience frequent disconnections due to mobility, making it hard to support seamlessly reliable data delivery. As a result, many mobile applications either depend on ad-hoc downloading resumption mechanisms or redundantly re-transfer the same content when disruptions happen.