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IoT-Based Cost Saving Offloading System for Cellular Networks

Show Author's Information Zhuojun Duan,  Mingyuan Yan,  Qilong Han( ),  Lijie Li,  Yingshu Li
Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta 30303, GA, USA.
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of North Georgia, 82 College Cir, Dahlonega 30597, GA, USA.
College of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China.
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Internet of Things (IoT), cellular networks, cost minimization
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Duan Z, Yan M, Han Q, et al. IoT-Based Cost Saving Offloading System for Cellular Networks. Tsinghua Science and Technology, 2017, 22(4): 379-388. https://doi.org/10.23919/TST.2017.7986941
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Nowadays, with the new techniques available in hardware and software, data requests generated by applications of mobile devices have grown explosively. The large amount of data requests and their responses lead to heavy traffic in cellular networks. To alleviate the transmission workload, offloading techniques have been proposed, where a cellular network distributes some popular data items to other wireless networks, so that users can directly download these data items from the wireless network around them instead of the cellular network. In this paper, we design a Cost Saving Offloading System (CoSOS), where the Internet of Things (IoT) is used to undertake partial data traffic and save more bandwidth for the cellular network. Two types of algorithms are proposed to handle the popular data items distribution among users. The experimental results show that CoSOS is useful in saving bandwidth and decreasing the cost for cellular networks.


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IoT-Based Cost Saving Offloading System for Cellular Networks

Show Author's information Zhuojun Duan, Mingyuan Yan, Qilong Han( ), Lijie Li, Yingshu Li
Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta 30303, GA, USA.
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of North Georgia, 82 College Cir, Dahlonega 30597, GA, USA.
College of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China.

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Nowadays, with the new techniques available in hardware and software, data requests generated by applications of mobile devices have grown explosively. The large amount of data requests and their responses lead to heavy traffic in cellular networks. To alleviate the transmission workload, offloading techniques have been proposed, where a cellular network distributes some popular data items to other wireless networks, so that users can directly download these data items from the wireless network around them instead of the cellular network. In this paper, we design a Cost Saving Offloading System (CoSOS), where the Internet of Things (IoT) is used to undertake partial data traffic and save more bandwidth for the cellular network. Two types of algorithms are proposed to handle the popular data items distribution among users. The experimental results show that CoSOS is useful in saving bandwidth and decreasing the cost for cellular networks.

Keywords: Internet of Things (IoT), cellular networks, cost minimization

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Received: 18 November 2016
Revised: 17 January 2017
Accepted: 22 January 2017
Published: 20 July 2017
Issue date: August 2017

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 61300207, 61370084, and 61502116).

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