On WiFi Offloading in Heterogeneous Networks: Various Incentives and Trade-Off Strategies

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 2345-2385

  He, Yejun ^a   Chen, Man ^a   Ge, Baohong ^a   Guizani, Mohsen ^b  

^a SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

heterogeneous network; network selection; offloading incentive; vehicular data offloading; WiFi; WiFi offloading

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN); WIRELESS NETWORKS;

FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; MOBILE DATA TRAFFIC; NETWORK SELECTION; OFFLOADING INCENTIVE; USERS' SATISFACTIONS; VEHICULAR DATA OFFLOADING; WI-FI OFFLOADING; WIRELESS ACCESS TECHNOLOGY;

WI-FI;

EID: 84999664659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2016.2558191     Document Type: Article

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