TRANSPORT PROTOCOL LAYER OPTIMIZATION FOR MANAGING SIGNALING AND POWER CONSUMPTION

摘要

Systems and methods for optimizing signaling in a mobile network and conserving battery resources based on transport protocol layer such as Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) layer optimization techniques are disclosed. A distributed proxy system, in various embodiments, can implement one or more optimization techniques including deferring TCP socket closures or closing network sockets with TCP RST instead of TCP FIN to save on signaling in the wireless (e.g., mobile network) and conserve battery resources. In some embodiments, the disclosed system can implement various methods to prevent or reduce number of TCP and/or application level retries, and thereby reduce signaling in the wireless network and conserve battery resources. In other embodiments, the distributed proxy system can multiplex all TCP sockets in a mobile device through a single socket to reduce TCP/IP overhead and thus conserve device and network resources.

主权项

1. A method of delaying requests to close connections to reduce signaling in a mobile network, comprising:
receiving a first request from a first mobile application on a mobile device to close a connection between the first mobile application and an application server associated with the first mobile application, wherein the first request is received while a radio of the mobile device is turned off; delaying the first request to close the connection until a second request which causes a radio connection to be established to the mobile network is received from a second mobile application on the mobile device; and sending both the first request to close the connection and the second request to the mobile network using the radio connection to reduce signaling in the mobile network.