ACM MobiSys 2014

Poster: SoftOffload: A Programmable Approach Toward Collaborative Mobile Traffic Offloading

Abstract:

The fast increase of mobile traffic from smartphone-like 
devices has created a huge pressure for the cellular 
operators to manage the network infrastructure and resources. 
Offloading the mobile traffic to alternative networks such 
as WiFi is sought as a promising direction to solve this 
problem cost-effectively. According to our study and 
experimental findings, existing research proposals are 
lack of concern for the complexity of network deployment 
and device limitations, which impedes the solution deployment. 
To overcome such challenge, we propose SoftOffload, a 
programmable framework for collaborative mobile traffic 
offloading. SoftOffload takes the advantage of software 
defined networking (SDN) paradigm in terms of openness and 
extensibility. We have implemented the first prototype 
utilising the open source Floodlight platform.


ACM Library Access

@inproceedings{Ding:MobiSys2014,
 author = {Ding, Aaron Yi and Crowcroft, Jon and Tarkoma, Sasu},
 title = {Poster: SoftOffload: A Programmable Approach Toward Collaborative Mobile Traffic Offloading},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services},
 series = {MobiSys '14},
 year = {2014},
 isbn = {978-1-4503-2793-0},
 location = {Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, USA},
 pages = {368--368},
 numpages = {1},
 url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2594368.2601462},
 doi = {10.1145/2594368.2601462},
 acmid = {2601462},
 publisher = {ACM},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 keywords = {mobile data offloading, software defined networking},
}

Aaron Yi Ding, Jon Crowcroft, and Sasu Tarkoma. 2014. Poster: SoftOffload: A Programmable Approach Toward Collaborative Mobile Traffic Offloading. In Proceedings of the 12th annual international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services (MobiSys '14).