UCAN: a unified cellular and ad-hoc network architecture
Proceedings of the 9th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
ICAM: Integrated Cellular and Ad Hoc Multicast
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
On Using Peer-to-Peer Communication in Cellular Wireless Data Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Fine-grained scalable streaming from coarse-grained videos
Proceedings of the 18th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
Downlink capacity of hybrid cellular ad hoc networks
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
An experimental study on scalable video streaming over hybrid cellular and ad hoc networks
Proceedings of the Workshop on Posters and Demos Track
Massive live video distribution using hybrid cellular and ad hoc networks
WOWMOM '11 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks
Mobile Data Offloading through Opportunistic Communications and Social Participation
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Scalable Video Multicast in Hybrid 3G/Ad-Hoc Networks
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Overview of the Scalable Video Coding Extension of the H.264/AVC Standard
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
CrowdMAC: a crowdsourcing system for mobile access
Proceedings of the 13th International Middleware Conference
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There has been an increasing popularity of applications deployed on mobile devices, such as smartphones or tablets. Many of them, e.g., YouTube [1], Pandora [2], Facebook [3] and etc, require access to the Internet for content sharing while running, and contribute a huge amount of data traffic sent through cellular networks [9], which causes cellular networks currently to be overloaded. Moreover, it is predicted that mobile data traffic will increase very fast in the next few years [9]. As a result, many cellular network providers are putting a lot of effort to seeking solutions for improving their network capacity, e.g., upgrade their infrastructure, as well as decide to move away from unlimited data plans to less flexible charging models [4]. In this paper, we address the problem of efficient rich content sharing from/to mobile devices by proposing practical approaches that provide high delivery performance, reduce cellular data traffic, and release the pressure of cellular networks' heavy load on mobile users and cellular network services providers. Our approaches [13--16] all share a common technique: using complementary networks, such as WiFi, WiFi ad hoc or Bluetooth, equipped in most modern mobile devices to offload data traffic previously planned to be transmitted over cellular networks. For each proposed approach, we prove its feasibility by testing it on an Android based testbed and evaluate its performance and scalability using simulations.