Title
Price-Aware Traffic Splitting in D2D HetNets with Cost-Energy-QoE Tradeoffs
Abstract
•Minimization of monetary cost and energy consumption while keeping high user satisfaction for video streaming.•Simultaneous data download from multiple wireless networks (cellular/ WiFi), as well as peer devices over D2D links.•Autonomous operation at the user side without any intervention from the network side or changes in the technology standards.•Maintenance of target user satisfaction by minimizing the stalling events through satisfying a minimum buffering.•Consideration of cooperative pricing with different cost models including usage-based and tiered pricing.•Estimation of network parameters for the next time slots to achieve higher performance gains.•High performance gains up to an excellent QoE of 5, more than 57% reduction in energy and 76% in monetary cost.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.comnet.2020.107169
Computer Networks
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Heterogeneous networks,Traffic splitting,Energy consumption,Monetary cost,QoE,D2D communication,Multi-RAT
Journal
172
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1389-1286
1
0.35
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nadine Abbas1243.15
sanaa sharafeddine214523.26
Hazem M. Hajj34614.04
Zaher Dawy486973.62