Automatic Network Management for Mobile Devices

Mobile devices increasingly find themselves immersed in a sea of potential wireless network connectivity. Our prior work showed that, in urban areas, users encounter multiple 802.11 access points on virtually every scan. Not all of these are usable, however, and the connection quality provided by each varies widely with regard to bandwidth and latency to the network core, and with regard to allowed port traffic. This paper presents an automatic network management for mobile devices