Data offloading techniques in cellular networks: A survey

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 580-603

  Rebecchi, Filippo ^a,b   Dias De Amorim, Marcelo ^a   Conan, Vania ^b   Passarella, Andrea ^a   Bruno, Raffaele ^c   Conti, Marco ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b Communications and Security ^*  (France)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

cellular networks; delay Tolerant networks; hybrid networks; Mobile data offloading; WiFi

Indexed keywords

MOBILE SECURITY; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SURVEYS; WI-FI; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION; CELLULAR NETWORK; HYBRID ARCHITECTURES; HYBRID NETWORK; LOW-COST SOLUTION; MOBILE DATA OFFLOADING; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; TECHNICAL ASPECTS;

DELAY TOLERANT NETWORKS;

EID: 84930507075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2014.2369742     Document Type: Article

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