Abstract The introduction of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined
Networking (SDN) to mobile networks enables operators to control and dimension their …

Mobile broadband is predominantly priced following tiered plans that involve a certain
prepaid emph {commit volume} and additional metered volume priced at a higher emph …

In the LTE EPC, many network entities and interfaces have to be maintained and updated
regularly. Moreover, to accommodate more users, new hardware must be integrated …

In this paper, we empirically demonstrate the growing importance of reliability by measuring
its effect on user behavior. We present an approach for broadband reliability …

Video streaming is the most popular application in today's mobile Internet and its growing
demands and popularity put more and more load on cellular networks. In a recent trend to …

To cope with the increasing demand of mobile devices and the limited capacity of cellular
networks mobile connections are offloaded to WiFi. The access capacity is further increased …

Today's end-user devices have multiple access networks available and can achieve better
application performance by distributing traffic across access networks. However, matching …

In the method an Access Point comprises aggregating spare bandwidth of at least another
Access Point and capturing data traffic from at least one user computing device, said user …

We present PCach, a smartphone application designed to relieve the congestion in cellular
networks resulting from the exponential growth of mobile data traffic. The basic idea …

The load on cellular networks is constantly increasing. Especially video streaming
applications, whose demands and requirements keep growing, put high loads on cellular …