Mobile Data Offloading: How Much Can WiFi Deliver?

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This is a quantitative study on the performance of 3G mobile data offloading through WiFi networks. We recruited about 100 iPhone users from a metropolitan area and collected statistics on their WiFi connectivity during about a two and half week period in February 2010. We find that a user is in WiFi coverage for 70% of the time on average and the distributions of WiFi connection and disconnection times have a strong heavy-tail tendency with means around 2 hours and 40 minutes, respectively. Using the acquired traces, we run trace-driven simulation to measure offloading efficiency under diverse conditions e.g. traffic types, deadlines and WiFi deployment scenarios. The results indicate that if users can tolerate a two hour delay in data transfer (e.g, video and image uploads), the network can offload 70% of the total 3G data traffic on average. We also develop a theoretical framework that permits an analytical study of the average performance of offloading. This tool is useful for network providers to obtain a rough estimate on the average performance of offloading for a given input WiFi deployment condition.
Publisher
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
Issue Date
2010-10
Language
English
Article Type
Article; Proceedings Paper
Citation

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION REVIEW, v.40, no.4, pp.425 - 426

ISSN
0146-4833
DOI
10.1145/1851275.1851244
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/102885
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