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Bandwidth Aggregation Across Multiple Smartphone Devices, Bradley R. Zeller
Bandwidth Aggregation Across Multiple Smartphone Devices, Bradley R. Zeller
Master's Theses
Smartphones now account for the majority of all cell phones in use today [23]. Ubiquitous Internet access is a valuable feature offered by these devices and the vast majority of smartphone applications make use of the Internet in one way or another. However, the bandwidth offered by these cellular networks is often much lower than we typically experience on our standard home networks, leading to a less-than-optimal user experience. This makes it very challenging and frustrating to access certain types of web content such as video streaming, large file downloads, loading large webpages, etc.
Given that most modern smartphones are …