Enhancing network connectivity using smart mobile sensors

Abstract

Nowadays, mobile devices are multi-interface systems which are, theoretically, capable of exploiting multiple Radio Access Technologies simultaneously. Furthermore, modern mobile devices have motion and location sensors that can used to facilitate robust network connectivity. We propose a Multi-Interface System Connectivity Manager that takes advantage of all the available resources in mobile devices. In this study, we emphasize on enhancing the Point of Attachment (PoA) discovery by using the aid of motion sensors and location data. In this work, we use real mobile phone using Android operating system to conduct our experiments. The results show that our proposed scheme performance more efficiently and only with small overhead in terms of power and computation.