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Offloading Surrogates Characterization via Mobile Crowdsensing

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This paper uses data mining of a mobile crowdsensed dataset of passive WiFi scans to define attributes that can characterize a chaotic WiFi deployment with respect to offloading opportunities. Besides indicators of signal quality, we define indicators of contact windows and contact opportunities with an Access Point (AP). We apply k-means clustering to identify classes of APs, and observe that interference metrics are more relevant than plain RSSI; that contact window metrics can be estimated using only APs' coverage data; and that popularity and importance can characterize APs whether the offloading targets many or only a few users.

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  • (2022)Human Mobility Support for Personalized Data OffloadingIEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management10.1109/TNSM.2022.315380419:2(1505-1520)Online publication date: Jun-2022
  • (2018)Impacts of Human Mobility in Mobile Data OffloadingProceedings of the 13th Workshop on Challenged Networks10.1145/3264844.3264849(39-46)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2018

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        CrowdSenSys '17: Proceedings of the First ACM Workshop on Mobile Crowdsensing Systems and Applications
        November 2017
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        DOI:10.1145/3139243
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        3. Offloading
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        • (2022)Human Mobility Support for Personalized Data OffloadingIEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management10.1109/TNSM.2022.315380419:2(1505-1520)Online publication date: Jun-2022
        • (2018)Impacts of Human Mobility in Mobile Data OffloadingProceedings of the 13th Workshop on Challenged Networks10.1145/3264844.3264849(39-46)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2018

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