Exploring cross-application cellular traffic optimization with baidu trafficguard

Zhenhua Li, Weiwei Wang, Tianyin Xu, Xin Zhong, Xiang Yang Li, Yunhao Liu, Christo Wilson, Ben Y. Zhao

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Abstract

As mobile cellular devices and traffic continue their rapid growth, providers are taking larger steps to optimize traffic, with the hopes of improving user experiences while reducing congestion and bandwidth costs. This paper presents the design, deployment, and experiences with Baidu TrafficGuard, a cloud-based mobile proxy that reduces cellular traffic using a network-layer VPN. The VPN connects a client-side proxy to a centralized traffic processing cloud. TrafficGuard works transparently across heterogeneous applications, and effectively reduces cellular traffic by 36% and overage instances by 10.7 times for roughly 10 million Android users in China. We discuss a large-scale cellular traffic analysis effort, how the resulting insights guided the design of TrafficGuard, and our experiences with a variety of traffic optimization techniques over one year of deployment.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2016
PublisherUSENIX Association
Pages61-76
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)9781931971294
StatePublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2016 - Santa Clara, United States
Duration: Mar 16 2016Mar 18 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2016

Conference

Conference13th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySanta Clara
Period3/16/163/18/16

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Control and Systems Engineering

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