TY - GEN
T1 - Openmobs
T2 - 6th International ICST Conference on Mobile Networks and Management, MONAMI 2014
AU - Ciobanu, Nicolae Valentin
AU - Comaneci, Dragos George
AU - Dobre, Ciprian
AU - Mavromoustakis, Constandinos X.
AU - Mastorakis, George
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - We witness an explosion in the number of applications being developed for mobile devices. Many such applications are in need or generate a lot of Internet traffic, and as such mobile devices are today equipped with more networking capabilities, from mobile broadband (3G/4G) to WiFi, Bluetooth, and others. However, when it comes to mobile broadband Internet access, for economic reasons, today mobile providers tend to switch from unlimited mobile data plans to tiered data pricing models, putting pressure on mobile data subscribers to be more careful how they consume their subscribed traffic. In this paper, we propose OpenMobs, a mean to reduce the costs associated with mobile broadband access to Internet, by sharing under-utilized networking resources among co-located users through free wireless connections. When two or more handsets are in the vicinity of each other, Open- Mobs forms an ad hoc mesh network to redirect traffic between mobile data plan subscribers, in the most economic and viable way. We present studies on the feasibility of such a system to minimize the costs users pay monthly to their mobile providers, and even financially compensates users’ willingness to participate in the collaboration.
AB - We witness an explosion in the number of applications being developed for mobile devices. Many such applications are in need or generate a lot of Internet traffic, and as such mobile devices are today equipped with more networking capabilities, from mobile broadband (3G/4G) to WiFi, Bluetooth, and others. However, when it comes to mobile broadband Internet access, for economic reasons, today mobile providers tend to switch from unlimited mobile data plans to tiered data pricing models, putting pressure on mobile data subscribers to be more careful how they consume their subscribed traffic. In this paper, we propose OpenMobs, a mean to reduce the costs associated with mobile broadband access to Internet, by sharing under-utilized networking resources among co-located users through free wireless connections. When two or more handsets are in the vicinity of each other, Open- Mobs forms an ad hoc mesh network to redirect traffic between mobile data plan subscribers, in the most economic and viable way. We present studies on the feasibility of such a system to minimize the costs users pay monthly to their mobile providers, and even financially compensates users’ willingness to participate in the collaboration.
KW - Internet
KW - Mobile broadband
KW - Sharing
KW - Traffic allocation
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84924135029&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-16292-8_18
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-16292-8_18
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84924135029
VL - 141
T3 - Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, LNICST
SP - 244
EP - 258
BT - Mobile Networks and Management - 6th International Conference, MONAMI 2014, Revised Selected Papers
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 22 September 2014 through 24 September 2014
ER -