Based on cellular network traces from real-world 3G carriers,
we investigate the key 3G configuration parameters such
as the power states and the inactivity timers, and design a novel
burst transmissionmechanism for streaming from the surrogates
to themobile devices. The burst transmissionmechanismmakes
careful decisions on burst sizes and opportunistic transitions
among high/low power consumption modes at the devices, in
order to effectively increase the battery lifetime