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The ever-increasing demand for multimedia contents has imposed severe traffic overload pressure on mobile network operators (MNOs). Cooperative data offloading is a promising approach to alleviate the traffic congestion, which leverages the device-to-device (D2D) communications among mobile users. However, mobile users may not be obligated to participate in cooperative data offloading, since it will...
We investigate in this paper the assessment of the energy efficiency of a wireless access network per service category. We consider five categories of service, two categories with high traffic: streaming and web browsing, and three other with lower traffic: download, voice and other minor data services. We introduce two scenarios, one where some services are mandatory, it is typically the case of...
In this paper, we propose a maximum dispersion based approach for the problem of determining the feasibility of a set of single-hop rates in SINR model. Recent algorithmic work on capacity maximization has focused on maximizing the number of simultaneously scheduled links. We show that such an approach is not suitable for the problem. We present a polynomial time algorithm to determine the feasibility...
We study the problem of serving randomly arriving and delay-sensitive traffic over a multi-channel communication system with time-varying channel states and unknown statistics. This problem deviates from the classical exploration-exploitation setting in that the design and analysis must accommodate the dynamics of packet availability and urgency as well as the cost of each channel use at the time...
Mobile crowd sensing has found a variety of applications (e.g., spectrum sensing, environmental monitoring) by leveraging the "wisdom" of a potentially large crowd of mobile users. An important metric of a crowd sensing task is data accuracy, which relies on the qualities of the participating users' data (e.g., users' received SNRs for measuring a transmitter's transmit signal strength)...
We consider network utility maximization problems over heterogeneous cellular networks (HetNets) that permit dual connectivity. Dual connectivity (DC) is a feature that targets emerging practical HetNet deployments that will comprise of non-ideal (higher latency) connections between transmission nodes, and has been recently introduced to the LTE-Advanced standard. DC allows for a user to be simultaneously...
We introduce a new optimization framework, built over a discounted-rate metric, that captures the sensitivities of wireless users to time-variations in their fairness measure of rate allocations. The resulting, so-called, Discounted-Rate Utility Maximization (DRUM) formulation not only accommodates traditional long-term and less-explored instant fairness concepts in its extremes, but also encompasses...
The spread in the use of wireless services resulted in a remarkable growth of power consumption for telecommunication systems to satisfy the continuous growth of data demand. On the other hand, the emergence of smart grids and the expansion of low-cost distributed powering solutions represented an opportunity to enhance the energy efficiency and improve communication systems' costs. In this paper,...
With the vision of the internet of things (IoT), it is expected that wireless networks will grow, concentrate and traffic carried will increase in the future. In wireless networks, multi-hop communication can be used instead of single-hop communication that we are accustomed today. Multi-hop communication is known to provide enhanced goodput performance for large and dense wireless networks under...
Mainly due to exponential growth in smart devices based mobile computing, the access networks are gaining tremendous momentum. Software defined networking (SDN), along with cloud computing and virtualization techniques, is considered as a major step forward from the conventional networking. Although SDN is being widely deployed in the data centers and enterprise networks, its adaptation in wireless...
The explosion of mobile data traffic has an adverse effect on communication delay and system performance in 5G wireless network. Deploying a number of caches on the base stations(BSs) to cache content has became an essential solution. In this paper, we present a caching structure and propose a CMAC(Cooperative Multicast-Aware Caching) strategy to reduce the average latency of delivering content. The...
To support the emerging next era of mobile wireless networks, researchers have made a great deal of efforts in promising techniques in multimedia services - the statistical quality-of-service (QoS) technique, which has been proved to be effective in statistically guaranteeing delay-bounded video transmissions over the time-varying wireless channels. On the other hand, as one of the 5G-promising techniques,...
An emerging usage is to rely on mobile devices (Smartphones or tablets) for large-scale events. They can be used for many applications like live voting or chatting, but also to access all the data related to an event. However, in such case, handling mobile devices trying to access data simultaneously is difficult. A Wi-Fi access point can only handle a limited amount of devices. Current solutions,...
In recent years, as higher performance terminal equipments are spread, the amount of mobile data traffic is growing rapidly by using popularization of streaming services in wireless networks. To overcome this situation, it is considered that Access Points (APs) are deployed densely for capacity improvement. In such an environment, virtualization is a possible technique to use multiple APs efficiently...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) overlays and Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs) exhibit some common characteristics, such as dynamism, self-organization and decentralized control. The synergy between the two has been utilized by researchers to design distributed applications over MANETs. However, the available simulation platforms are far from perfect to evaluate the proposed designs. In most of the simulation platforms,...
In this work, we propose an auction-based resource negotiation for flexible video traffic offloading over heterogeneous wireless networks. The goal of the proposed system is to alleviate long term evolution (LTE) traffic congestion by offloading video traffic through WiFi network in a flexible scale while providing stable video streaming services to users with the minimum monetary cost. The fountain...
Rapid, reliable and energy efficient programing code dissemination is a challenging issue and offer a programmable and flexible network architecture for software defined wireless networks (SDWNs). Many schemes for programing codes in large-scale network incur longer dissemination convergence time (DCT) in loss nature of wireless channels. In this paper, an integrated adjusted broadcast (TAB) scheme...
Wireless network virtualization has emerged as a promising technology to provide a variety of services and applications for future wireless network as by enabling a more effective exploitation of network resources. In a mobile virtual network (MVN), both infrastructure provider (InP) and service provider (SP) must have a complementary relationship, as their revenues are mutually dependent. The trading...
The worldwide mobile traffic is growing rapidly and more than 90% of the internet traffic relies on the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) protocol, which is known to have a poor performance over unreliable wireless networks. One of the promising TCP enhancement mechanisms that are being considered by the wireless network operators is the Split-TCP. It is also quite well known that the Split-TCP...
The newly imposed heterogeneous statistical delay- bounded quality of service (QoS) provisioning, which refers to the different/variable delay-bounded QoS guarantees among different wireless links, for the fifth-generation (5G) mobile multimedia wireless networks has received much research attention recently. The heterogeneous statistical delay- bounded QoS provisioning can be classified into two...
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