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This paper presents a mechanism for steering connections to different mobile networks for UAV-based reliable communications. This connection steering mechanism works by selecting the best Radio Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) quality among the available networks in order to ensure the highest availability. In this work, we developed a test-bed to evaluate the performance of the steering mechanism...
The exploding volumes of mobile video traffic call for deploying content caches inside mobile operators network. With in-network caching, users' requests for popular content can be served from a content cache deployed at mobile gateways in vicinity to the end user, therefore considerably reducing the load on the content servers and the backbone of operator's network. In practice, content caches can...
Existing gateway selection mechanisms base their selection on gateway load and/or geographical proximity of users to the gateways. In this paper, we mainly argue the need for other metrics to improve the gateway selection mechanisms in distributed mobile networks. We therefore propose considering the end-to-end connection and the service/application type as two important additional metrics in the...
In the past, network operators were content with offering simple services such as voice and text messaging. However, they began to notice that these services were generating lower revenues even while the number of subscribers increased. Network operators are now forced to rapidly deploy value added services with minimum capital investment while maximising revenue from service usage by end users. Network...
With the evolution towards mass wireless broadband communication, a novel set of applications tailored for this environment will be developed that are able to communicate their requirements towards core networks and foremost to adopt to a change in access network conditions of users. This paper will present their characteristics and how they can be developed and tested with the 3GPP Evolved Packet...
The objective of the work is to propose a Quality of Service (QoS) aware heterogeneous networking model for emergency management system using network virtualization. An emergency management information system is made up of heterogeneous communication and computing networks to address the crisis situation and adopt the network according to the service parameters. To meet the unpredictable demands and...
Increasing demand for mobile data communications and for various applications encourages mobile network operators (MNOs) to deploy new radio access technologies (RATs). The third generation partner project (3GPP) has specified an all-IP-based mobile core network: evolved packet core (EPC) which can can accommodate a 3.9-G RAT (Long Term Evolution [LTE]) as well as conventional RATs, such as UMTS and...
A scheme that exploits the broadcast nature of the wireless communication in order to achieve multicast content delivery is presented in this paper. As opposed to broadcasting, this method enables the clients to determine on-line the delivered content, and thus preserves the advantages of an individual service. On the other hand, a multicast content delivery is much more efficient than a unicast content...
Video-streaming can now be offered on third-generation (3G) mobile networks. Most research efforts have focused on video download. This paper presents a detailed study of challenges faced for successfully deploying applications requiring life video upload. Both subjective and objective qualities as well as the effects of mobility are analyzed on real 3G networks. Consequently, video profiles are identified...
In this paper, we propose an adaptive pacing scheme at the link layer for IEEE 802.11 based multihop wireless networks. Our objective is to improve the performance of higher layer protocols without any modifications to them. Our adaptive pacing scheme estimates the four-hop transmission delay in the network path without incurring any additional overheads, and accordingly paces the packets to reduce...
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