Route Instruction Mechanism for Mobile Users Leveraging Distributed Wireless Resources

Takeshi KAKEHI  Ryoichi SHINKUMA  Tutomu MURASE  Gen MOTOYOSHI  Kyoko YAMORI  Tatsuro TAKAHASHI 

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications  Vol.E95-B  No.6  pp.1965-1973
Publication Date: 2012/06/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1345
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Towards Management for Future Networks and Services)
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Keyword: 
wireless bandwidth,  route instruction,  traffic balancing,  system modeling, 

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Summary: 
The market growths of smart-phones and thin clients have been significantly increasing communication traffic in mobile networks. To handle the increased traffic, network operators should consider how to leverage distributed wireless resources such as distributed spots of wireless local access networks. In this paper, we consider the system where multiple moving users share distributed wireless access points on their traveling routes between their start and goal points and formulate as an optimization problem. Then, we come up with three algorithms as a solution for the problem. The key idea here is 'longcut route instruction', in which users are instructed to choose a traveling route where less congested access points are available; even if the moving distance increases, the throughput for users in the system would improve. In this paper, we define the gain function. Moreover, we analyze the basic characteristics of the system using as a simple model as possible.