Techniques for Surviving Mobile Data Explosion

225 Pages·2014·2.102 MB·English

by  Dinesh C. Verma, Paridhi Verma

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Discusses the challenges of bandwidth scarcity due
to mobile data explosion and their solutions
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The rapidly growing popularity of Smartphones and other mobile devices has resulted in
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Techniques for
surviving The Mobile
DaTa explosion
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Techniques for
surviving The Mobile
DaTa explosion
Dinesh ChanDra Verma
PariDhi Verma
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Verma, Dinesh C.
Techniques for surviving the mobile data explosion / Dinesh Chandra Verma, Paridhi Verma.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-118-29057-6 (pbk.)
1. Mobile computing. I. Verma, Paridhi. II. Title.
QA76.59.V47 2014
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conTenTs
preface xiii
abouT The auThors xix
i inTroDucTion anD
general observaTions 1
1 TeChnologies suPPorTing
mobile DaTa 3
1.1 Introduction / 3
1.2 Computer Communication Networks / 5
1.3 IP Networks / 9
1.4 Cellular Data Networks / 12
1.5 Mobile Applications / 14
2 mobile DaTa eCosysTem 17
2.1 Introduction / 17
2.2 Mobile Data Ecosystem / 17
2.3 Mobile Data Growth / 22
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viii conTenTs
2.4 Where is the Bottleneck? / 23
2.5 Impact of Mobile Data Growth on the Ecosystem / 25
3 an oVerView of TeChniques
for banDwiDTh oPTimizaTion 29
3.1 Introduction / 29
3.2 Network Model / 30
3.3 Object Caching / 32
3.4 Object Compression / 34
3.5 Packet Compression / 35
3.6 Flow Sharing / 37
3.7 Content Transformation / 40
3.8 Just-in-Time Transmission / 41
3.9 Rate Control / 42
3.10 Service Differentiation / 43
4 an oVerView of TeChniques
for CosT reDuCTion 45
4.1 Introduction / 45
4.2 Infrastructure Sharing / 47
4.3 Virtualization / 48
4.4 Consolidation / 49
4.5 IT Usage in Networks / 52
ii Techniques for Mobile
neTwork operaTors 55
5 banDwiDTh oPTimizaTion anD CosT reDuCTion
in The raDio aCCess neTwork 57
5.1 Introduction / 57
5.2 Upgrading the RAN / 58
5.3 Leveraging Additional Bandwidth / 65
5.4 Bandwidth Management / 68
5.5 Nontechnical Approaches / 72