One of the most engaging challenges for mobile operators today is how to manage the
exponential data traffic increase. Mobile data offloading stands out as a promising and low …

Over the last few years, data traffic over cellular networks has seen an exponential rise,
primarily due to the explosion of smartphones, tablets, and laptops. This increase in data …

Recently, due to the increasing popularity of enjoying various multimedia services on mobile
devices (eg, smartphones, ipads, and electronic tablets), the generated mobile data traffic …

An unprecedented increase in the mobile data traffic volume has been recently reported due
to the extensive use of smartphones, tablets, and laptops. This is a major concern for mobile …

For the past years, the analysts have been predicting a tremendous and continuous
increase in mobile traffic, causing much of industry and academia to seek out any and all …

Cellular networks, especially 3G networks, are currently overloaded with mobile data traffic.
It is thus imperative to develop novel communication architectures and protocols for this …

In cellular networks, due to practical deployment issues, some areas have good wireless
coverage while others may not. This results in significant throughput (service quality) …

The explosive growth of the mobile user population and multimedia services are causing a
severe traffic overload problem in the cellular network. The Third-Generation Partnership …

This paper surveys the literature of opportunistic offloading. Opportunistic offloading refers to
offloading traffic originally transmitted through the cellular network to opportunistic network …

The emerging mobile cloud has expanded the horizon of application development and
deployment with techniques such as code offloading. While offloading has been widely …