Title
Demo: D2D Rescue of Overloaded Cellular Channels
Abstract
Mobile data traffic is set to triple in three years from now according to Cisco. This trend is a real challenge for operators since wireless capacity is bounded. To boost network capacity further, operators think about paradigm-shifting solutions to relieve their infrastructures. Recently, data offloading received increasing attention from the research community. Operators may leverage unused bandwidth across different technologies to shift part of the traffic onto less critical infrastructure (e.g., through Wi-Fi access points). In a further evolution, they can also benefit from the widespread diffusion of smart mobile devices with multiple communication interfaces. Users become the heart of the offloading strategy by employing multi-hop opportunistic communications to improve content dissemination, while reducing the load on the wireless infrastructure. We propose an architecture that takes advantage of the latest advances in opportunistic networking to achieve efficient traffic offloading. In this approach, terminals are under continuous control of the operator - the cellular infrastructure serves as a control channel to track data dissemination. The demonstration builds on DROiD [2] as injection strategy, and Epics [1] to distribute data opportunistically.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2742647.2745920
MobiSys
Field
DocType
Citations 
Control channel,Wireless,Computer science,Communication channel,Critical infrastructure,Bandwidth (signal processing),Mobile device,Dissemination,Mobile broadband,Embedded system
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Farid Benbadis1408.88
Filippo Rebecchi21407.32
Florian Cosnier300.34
Matteo Sammarco400.34
Marcelo Dias de Amorim575866.66
Vania Conan600.34