An application layer protocol for energy-efficient bandwidth aggregation with guaranteed quality-of-experience

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1538-1546

  Tang, Zaiyang ^a   Wang, Zirui ^a   Li, Peng ^b   Guo, Song ^b   Liao, Xiaofei ^a   Jin, Hai ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AIZU   (Japan)

Author keywords

Application layer protocol; bandwidth aggregation; energy efficiency; quality of experience

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; ENERGY UTILIZATION; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE SECURITY; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WI-FI; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

APPLICATION LAYER PROTOCOLS; BANDWIDTH AGGREGATIONS; CELLULAR INTERFACES; CONCURRENT DATA TRANSMISSION; GUARANTEED QUALITY; ON-LINE ALGORITHMS; QUALITY OF EXPERIENCE (QOE); TRAFFIC SCHEDULING;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84929377897     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPDS.2014.2328586     Document Type: Article

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