Open this publication in new window or tab >>2005 (English)In: 2005 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2005, IEEE conference proceedings, 2005, Vol. 3, p. 2019-2023Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Exploiting user-deployed networks as part of a public infrastructure has been proposed as a concept to radically lower the cost of provisioning access and services in urban environments. An important question is how dense a network with spotty coverage has to be in order to support interesting services. In this paper1, we introduce a framework for evaluating the user-perceived performance for two service types, a time-critical news subscription service (involving streaming) and a more delay tolerant entertainment service ("web browsing"). The user terminals contain a memory cache and an "agent" that opportunistically downloads and stores relevant pieces of information as users walk close to the access points. Results show that above a critical access point density, that is still significantly lower than the one required for continuous coverage, the services start performing very well with little or no outdated information. In most studied scenarios, we are communication limited meaning that memory capacity is not a problem, but energy is.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE conference proceedings, 2005
Keywords
Cache memory, HIgh speed networks, Information retrieval systems, Telecommunication services
National Category
Telecommunications
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-7635 (URN)10.1109/PIMRC.2005.1651794 (DOI)2-s2.0-34047143732 (Scopus ID)978-3-8007-2909-8 (ISBN)
Conference
2005 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC 2005
Note
QC 20100716
2007-11-132007-11-132016-04-19Bibliographically approved