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Crowdsourced Mobile Data Transfer with Delay Bound

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In this article, we design a crowdsourcing system, CrowdMAC, where mobile devices form a local community or marketplace to share network access and transfer data for each other. CrowdMAC enables (i) mobile clients to select and exploit multiple mobile hotspots in its vicinity for data transfer and (ii) mobile hotspots to open their cellular connectivity to admit/serve delay-bounded requests from mobile users for a fee. The evaluations of CrowdMAC indicate that (i) mobile clients can tune preferred trade-offs between cost and delay through a control knob, (ii) mobile hotspots comply with all delay bounds, and (iii) the system ensures stable and efficient transfer.

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      cover image ACM Transactions on Internet Technology
      ACM Transactions on Internet Technology  Volume 16, Issue 4
      Special Issue on Internet of Things (IoT): Smart and Secure Service Delivery
      December 2016
      168 pages
      ISSN:1533-5399
      EISSN:1557-6051
      DOI:10.1145/3023158
      • Editor:
      • Munindar P. Singh
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      Publication History

      • Published: 22 December 2016
      • Accepted: 1 May 2016
      • Revised: 1 April 2016
      • Received: 1 November 2015
      Published in toit Volume 16, Issue 4

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