The exponential growth of mobile data users and services places a heavy burden on the limited wireless bandwidth of cellular data networks. The situation will be exacerbated with the advent of high
bandwidth multimedia applications for mobile devices. In this paper, we propose an architecture called the Cellular-based Ad hoc Peer Data Sharing system (CAPS) to reduce the load on the cellular network while improving request response times. In CAPS, mobile hosts in a cellular network form an overlay multi-hop wireless network. This ad hoc network acts as a ‘virtual cache’ that enables data sharing among mobile hosts. Participating mobiles share the contents of their local caches with other mobiles. A subset of mobile hosts keep track of the location of objects with minimal overhead. Using CAPS, popular objects can be obtained over the ad hoc network without accessing the cellular infrastructure, thereby reducing the load on the cellular network and improving data access latency. We have extensively evaluated the performance of this architecture through simulations in ns-2 across a wide range of scenarios, and find that CAPS reduces the load at the base station by up to 60%, and also improves the request response times for users by 40% on the average.
By: Young-Bae Ko, Kang-Won Lee, Thyagarajan Nandagopal
Published in: RC22468 in 2002
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