The Radio Access Network (RAN) infrastructure represents the most critical part for capacity
planning, which usually accounts for peak traffic conditions. A promising approach to …

The opportunistic utilization of third party WiFi access devices to offload customer traffic from
the mobile network has recently gained momentum as a promising approach to increase the …

Mobile data offloading is a key solution to mitigate heavy traffic load through cellular
networks to the WiFi networks. To motivate the mobile users to transmit data over the …

Mobile data offloading through complementary network technologies such as WiFi and
femtocell can significantly alleviate network congestion and enhance users' QoS. In this …

The unprecedented growth of mobile data traffic challenges the performance and economic
viability of today's cellular networks and calls for novel network architectures and …

With the rapid increase in demand for mobile data, mobile network operators are trying to
expand wireless network capacity by deploying wireless local area network (LAN) hotspots …

Offloading part of cellular traffic through existing alternative wireless networks, such as
femtocells and WiFi networks, is one promising solution to the severe traffic overload faced …

Mobile data offloading is a promising approach to alleviate network congestion and
enhance quality of service (QoS) in mobile cellular networks. In this paper, we investigate …

Wi-Fi offloading is a cost-effective approach to provide an immediate capacity relief to the
congested areas in a cellular network. However, previously proposed schemes mainly focus …

Offloading mobile data traffic away from cellular networks has become a main concern for
mobile operators to guarantee the quality of service of various applications offered to end …