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A reinforcement learning approach for cost- and energy-aware mobile data offloading


Abstract:

With rapid increases in demand for mobile data, mobile network operators are trying to expand wireless network capacity by deploying WiFi hotspots to offload their mobile...Show More

Abstract:

With rapid increases in demand for mobile data, mobile network operators are trying to expand wireless network capacity by deploying WiFi hotspots to offload their mobile traffic. However, these network-centric methods usually do not fulfill interests of mobile users (MUs). MUs consider many problems to decide whether to offload their traffic to a complementary WiFi network. In this paper, we study the WiFi offloading problem from MU's perspective by considering delay-tolerance of traffic, monetary cost, energy consumption as well as the availability of MU's mobility pattern. We first formulate the WiFi offloading problem as a finite-horizon discrete-time Markov decision process (FDTMDP) with known MU's mobility pattern and propose a dynamic programming based offloading algorithm. Since MU's mobility pattern may not be known in advance, we then propose a reinforcement learning based offloading algorithm, which can work well with unknown MU's mobility pattern. Extensive simulations are conducted to validate our proposed offloading algorithms.
Date of Conference: 05-07 October 2016
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 10 November 2016
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Conference Location: Kanazawa, Japan

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