Deadline assurance through dynamic bandwidth reallocation in multipath mobile data offloading

Chuan Sheng Lin, Sok Ian Sou

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Abstract

Multipath mobile data offloading technologies allow user equipments (UEs) to aggregate cellular network resources and WiFi network resources in order to increase the total effective bandwidth. The IETF recently proposed Multiple TCP (MPTCP) as an extension of the standard TCP protocol to enable UEs to deliver data streams across multiple connections simultaneously. By combining multipath mobile data offloading with MPTCP, operators have the ability to adjust the cellular bandwidth assigned to the users in accordance with their WiFi connection status, thereby saving valuable LTE resources while simultaneously ensuring the quality of service (QoS) of the transmission. Accordingly, this study proposes a dynamic bandwidth reallocation scheme which reduces the cellular bandwidth allocated to a UE when WiFi access is available and reassigns the saved LTE bandwidth to other UEs with no WiFi connection. The effectiveness of the proposed scheme is demonstrated by means of numerical simulations. It is shown that the proposed method successfully reduces both the deadline miss ratio of deadline assurance services and the amount of idle LTE bandwidth.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages1-6
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538617342
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018 Jun 8
Event2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2018 - Barcelona, Spain
Duration: 2018 Apr 152018 Apr 18

Publication series

NameIEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC
Volume2018-April
ISSN (Print)1525-3511

Other

Other2018 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC 2018
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona
Period18-04-1518-04-18

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Engineering

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