Offloading cellular traffic with opportunistic networks: A feasibility study

L. Valerio; F.Ben Abdesslemy; A. Lindgreny; R. Bruno; A. Passarella; Markus Luoto

doi:10.1109/MedHocNet.2015.7173296

Offloading cellular traffic with opportunistic networks: A feasibility study

L. Valerio, F.Ben Abdesslemy, A. Lindgreny, R. Bruno, A. Passarella, Markus Luoto

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

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Abstract

The widespread diffusion of powerful mobile devices with diverse networking and multimedia capabilities, and the associated blossoming of content-centric multimedia services is contributing to the exponential increase of data traffic in cellular networks. Mobile data offloading is a promising technique to cope with these problems, which allows to deliver data originally targeted for cellular networks to complementary networking technologies. Among the various forms of mobile data offloading in this study we focus on offloading through opportunistic networks. Differently from previous studies in this field we evaluate the efficiency of opportunistic offloading schemes by using a real cellular traffic dataset collected in a large metropolitan area over a period of one month. We focus our analysis on video requests for popular video providers, and we evaluate the potential benefits of using an opportunistic data dissemination scheme to request this videos from local users instead of using the cellular network. As a benchmark, we compare the performance of such system with a simple caching mechanism. We show that a simple opportunistic offloading scheme can improve the performance of the caching system even if only 10% of the users participate in the opportunistic dissemination. This means that operators could offload their network efficiently without needing to deploy additional caching infrastructure.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 14th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (MED-HOC-NET)
Publisher	IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4673-7306-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MedHocNet.2015.7173296
Publication status	Published - 3 Aug 2015
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	14th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop, Med-Hoc-Net 2015 - Vilamoura, Portugal Duration: 17 Jun 2015 → 18 Jun 2015 Conference number: 14

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Conference	14th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop, Med-Hoc-Net 2015
Abbreviated title	Med-Hoc-Net 2015
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Vilamoura
Period	17/06/15 → 18/06/15

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Valerio, L, Abdesslemy, FB, Lindgreny, A, Bruno, R, Passarella, A & Luoto, M 2015, Offloading cellular traffic with opportunistic networks: A feasibility study. in 2015 14th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (MED-HOC-NET). IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 14th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop, Med-Hoc-Net 2015, Vilamoura, Portugal, 17/06/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/MedHocNet.2015.7173296

Offloading cellular traffic with opportunistic networks : A feasibility study. / Valerio, L.; Abdesslemy, F.Ben; Lindgreny, A. et al.

2015 14th Annual Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (MED-HOC-NET). IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 2015.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference article in proceedings › Scientific › peer-review

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