Abstract:Current networking stacks were designed for a single wired network interface. Today, it is common for a mobile device connect to many networks that come and go, and whose rates are constantly changing. Current network stacks behave poorly in this environment because they commit an outgoing packet to a particular interface too early, making it hard to back out when network conditions change. By default, Linux will drop over 1,000 packets when a mobile client associates to a new WiFi network. In this paper, we i… Show more
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