Traffic offloading and resource sharing are two common methods for delivering cellular data
traffic over unlicensed bands. In this paper, we first develop a hybrid method to take full …

Cellular networks are facing severe traffic overloads due to the proliferation of smart
handheld devices and traffic-hungry applications. A cost-effective and practical solution is to …

WiFi offloading is regarded as one of the most promising techniques for dealing with the
explosive data increase in cellular networks due to its high data transmission rate and low …

Offloading cellular traffic to WiFi networks plays an important role in alleviating the
increasing burden on cellular networks. However, excessive traffic offloading brings severe …

Due to the rapid development of wireless access technologies and smart terminals, mobile
data traffic is continuously increasing, which is expected to lead to an explosive growth of …

In this paper, we present a method for resource allocation for small cells that integrate
licensed and unlicensed RF operations motivated by the widespread WiFi hotspots and the …

Traditional mobile data offloading transfers cellular users to WiFi networks to relieve the
cellular system from the pressure of the ever-increasing data traffic load. However, the …

In this paper, we propose a novel network-assisted user-centric WiFi-offloading model for
maximizing per-user throughput in a heterogeneous network. In the proposed WiFi …

WiFi interfaces have been recently incorporated in most cellular user equipments (UEs). In
current practice, the UE selects either the licensed band for cellular technologies or the …

In this paper, we study opportunistic traffic offloading in a vehicular environment, where the
cellular traffic of vehicular users (VUs) is offloaded through carrier-WiFi networks deployed …