NDLI: Device-Controlled Traffic Steering in Mobile Networks

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Menglan Jiang
Copyright Year	2015
Description	Author affiliation: King's Coll. London, London, UK (Menglan Jiang)
Abstract	User equipments (UEs) such as smartphones and tablets are widely used in heterogeneous wireless networks which include different technologies like WiFi and Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems. Implementing traffic steering effectively for user equipments to maximize their quality of service has become a key challenge these years. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a device controlled mechanism. We mainly focus on history records of each available networks and distributively consider multi-criteria like Received Signal Strength (RSS) and energy consumption of battery as our performance matrics from UE side. Device controlled mechanism is a fully distributed traffic steering approach that runs at user equipments. At the same time, to benefit from the network knowledge, we propose to use network analytic mechanism to further enhance certain performance metrics. Our proposed approach and analytic mechanism can help user equipments to make efficient decisions and minimize battery power consumption. This is particularly important to distribute traffic load across different radio access with less energy consumption for user equipments. The traffic steering of radio accesses in this paper is modelled based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) mechanism which considers past experiences of user equipements and help them to improve their quality of satisfactions. Through extensive simulation scenarios, we demonstrate how such device controlled mechanism with multi-criteria metrics can improve received throughput values of user equipments and reduce energy consumption of equipments' batteries.
Starting Page	7
Ending Page	12
File Size	570647
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479986606
DOI	10.1109/NGMAST.2015.13
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2015-09-09
Publisher Place	UK
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Energy consumption Received Signal Strength Quality of service battery lifetime device-centric network assisted selection algorithm Mobile communication Throughput Batteries Servers Mobile computing heterogeneous mobile networks
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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