A survey of opportunistic offloading

D Xu, Y Li, X Chen, J Li, P Hui, S Chen… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper surveys the literature of opportunistic offloading. Opportunistic offloading refers to
offloading traffic originally transmitted through the cellular network to opportunistic network …

To offload or not to offload? the bandwidth and energy costs of mobile cloud computing

MV Barbera, S Kosta, A Mei… - 2013 Proceedings Ieee …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The cloud seems to be an excellent companion of mobile systems, to alleviate battery
consumption on smartphones and to backup user's data on-the-fly. Indeed, many recent …

A comprehensive survey on mobile data offloading in heterogeneous network

T Wang, P Li, X Wang, Y Wang, T Guo, Y Cao - Wireless Networks, 2019 - Springer
With the explosive increase of smartphones, tablets and laptops, the past few years have
witnessed the exponential rise of mobile data traffic. This has already caused data overload …

Multiple mobile data offloading through disruption tolerant networks

Y Li, M Qian, D Jin, P Hui, Z Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To cope with explosive traffic demands on current cellular networks of limited capacity,
Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) is used to offload traffic from cellular networks to high …

Push-and-track: Saving infrastructure bandwidth through opportunistic forwarding

J Whitbeck, Y Lopez, J Leguay, V Conan… - Pervasive and Mobile …, 2012 - Elsevier
Major wireless operators are nowadays facing network capacity issues in striving to meet the
growing demands of mobile users. At the same time, 3G-enabled devices increasingly …

Freshness-aware seed selection for offloading cellular traffic through opportunistic mobile networks

H Zhou, X Chen, S He, C Zhu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Offloading cellular traffic through Opportunistic Mobile Networks, also known as
opportunistic offloading has been proposed as a promising way to relieve the overload of …

Stackelberg-game-based mechanism for opportunistic data offloading using moving vehicles

F Yang, J Yan, Y Guo, X Luo - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Data offloading through vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) is one of the most promising
methods for overcoming the overload problem in cellular networks. As data delivery by …

Mobile offloading in the wild: Findings and lessons learned through a real-life experiment with a new cloud-aware system

MV Barbera, S Kosta, A Mei, VC Perta… - IEEE INFOCOM 2014 …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mobile-cloud offloading mechanisms delegate heavy mobile computation to the cloud. In
real life use, the energy tradeoff of computing the task locally or sending the input data and …

Betweenness centrality in delay tolerant networks: A survey

N Magaia, AP Francisco, P Pereira, M Correia - Ad Hoc Networks, 2015 - Elsevier
Dynamic networks, in particular Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs), are characterized by a
lack of end-to-end paths at any given instant. Because of that, DTN routing protocols employ …

Data offloading in social mobile networks through VIP delegation

MV Barbera, AC Viana, MD de Amorim, J Stefa - Ad Hoc Networks, 2014 - Elsevier
The recent boost up of mobile data consumption is straining cellular networks in
metropolitan areas and is the main reason for the ending of unlimited data plans by many …