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Proceedings of the 2013 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications

2013

Session Number:C1L-B

Session:

Number:350

An Attractor Perturbation-Based Traffic Distribution Method and Its Practical Experiments

Narun Asvarujanon,  Kenji Leibnitz,  Naoki Wakamiya,  Masayuki Murata,  

pp.350-353

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Online ISSN:2188-5079

DOI:10.15248/proc.2.350

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Nowadays, it is very common to see personal devices support two or more networking interfaces, e.g., for cellular networks, WiMAX, and Wi-Fi. In theory, a concurrent usage of a combination of multiple radio access technologies (RATs) can provide low-cost high performance communication, i.e., lower delay and higher throughput. However, there is a problem of how to distribute traffic over the different network interfaces to maximize the gain and adapt to changes in traffic patterns. In this paper, we tackle this problem by using an attractor perturbation-based method which utilizes end-to-end information including fluctuations to distribute traffic over different network interfaces to increase the available bandwidth while trying to minimize the average end-to-end delay. We also include results from practical experiments to show the performance of our proposal.

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