A hybrid strategy for cellular data offloading to wifi access point based on type of application

The cellular networks are increasingly facing the challenge of data explosion due high demands of data by users. Several forecasts and analysis indicates that, in the near future the technology cannot cater for the users’ data demands. Many attempts to upgrade the technology resulted into inefficien...

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Main Author:	Bichi, Abdulkadir Abubakar
Format:	Thesis
Published:	2014
Subjects:	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering
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spelling	my-utm-ep.415792017-08-17T01:48:50Z A hybrid strategy for cellular data offloading to wifi access point based on type of application 2014 Bichi, Abdulkadir Abubakar TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering The cellular networks are increasingly facing the challenge of data explosion due high demands of data by users. Several forecasts and analysis indicates that, in the near future the technology cannot cater for the users’ data demands. Many attempts to upgrade the technology resulted into inefficient or expensive solution. Cellular data offloading to Wi-Fi is the most promising solution. The two main strategies for cellular data offloading are delay-tolerance and on-the-spot. The on-the-spot offloads less significant percentage of the traffic while the delay strategy achieves higher offloading percentage but with high rate of packet loss and high latency which affect the performance of real-time services. This research proposed an enhancement over the existing delay-algorithm. On receiving the user data request the strategy checks the availability and signal strengths of both the Wi-Fi and cellular and then classified the applications into real-time and non-real-time. The strategy always connects to Wi-Fi network if available. But when the Wi-Fi signal falls below the minimum threshold during the transfer, the strategy will complete the transfer using cellular immediately for real-time applications and wait till the end of the delay deadline in case of nonreal- time applications before it switch to cellular. The simulation result shows the enhanced algorithm achieved 59% of offloading efficiency similarly to the Wiffier delay-algorithm but with 28% reduction in packet loss and 30% less completion time for real-time traffics compares to original delay-algorithm. 2014 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/41579/ masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing Faculty of Computing
institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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topic	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering Bichi, Abdulkadir Abubakar A hybrid strategy for cellular data offloading to wifi access point based on type of application
description	The cellular networks are increasingly facing the challenge of data explosion due high demands of data by users. Several forecasts and analysis indicates that, in the near future the technology cannot cater for the users’ data demands. Many attempts to upgrade the technology resulted into inefficient or expensive solution. Cellular data offloading to Wi-Fi is the most promising solution. The two main strategies for cellular data offloading are delay-tolerance and on-the-spot. The on-the-spot offloads less significant percentage of the traffic while the delay strategy achieves higher offloading percentage but with high rate of packet loss and high latency which affect the performance of real-time services. This research proposed an enhancement over the existing delay-algorithm. On receiving the user data request the strategy checks the availability and signal strengths of both the Wi-Fi and cellular and then classified the applications into real-time and non-real-time. The strategy always connects to Wi-Fi network if available. But when the Wi-Fi signal falls below the minimum threshold during the transfer, the strategy will complete the transfer using cellular immediately for real-time applications and wait till the end of the delay deadline in case of nonreal- time applications before it switch to cellular. The simulation result shows the enhanced algorithm achieved 59% of offloading efficiency similarly to the Wiffier delay-algorithm but with 28% reduction in packet loss and 30% less completion time for real-time traffics compares to original delay-algorithm.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Bichi, Abdulkadir Abubakar
author_facet	Bichi, Abdulkadir Abubakar
author_sort	Bichi, Abdulkadir Abubakar
title	A hybrid strategy for cellular data offloading to wifi access point based on type of application
title_short	A hybrid strategy for cellular data offloading to wifi access point based on type of application
title_full	A hybrid strategy for cellular data offloading to wifi access point based on type of application
title_fullStr	A hybrid strategy for cellular data offloading to wifi access point based on type of application
title_full_unstemmed	A hybrid strategy for cellular data offloading to wifi access point based on type of application
title_sort	hybrid strategy for cellular data offloading to wifi access point based on type of application
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing
granting_department	Faculty of Computing
publishDate	2014
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A hybrid strategy for cellular data offloading to wifi access point based on type of application

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