DocumentCode
2900829
Title
Vehicular carriers for big data transfers (Poster)
Author
Gorcitz, R.A. ; Jarma, Y. ; Spathis, Promethee ; Dias de Amorim, Marcelo ; Wakikawa, Ryuji ; Whitbeck, Jake ; Conan, Vania ; Fdida, S.
fYear
2012
fDate
14-16 Nov. 2012
Firstpage
109
Lastpage
114
Abstract
In the latest years, Internet traffic has increased at a significantly faster pace than its capacity, preventing efficient bulk data transfers such as data-center services and high-definition user-generated content applications. In this paper, we propose to take advantage of the existing worldwide road infrastructure as an offloading channel to help the legacy Internet assuage its burden. Our results suggest that piggybacking data on vehicles can easily lead to network capacity in the petabyte range.
Keywords
Internet; road traffic; Internet traffic; big data transfers; data-center services; high-definition user-generated content applications; network capacity; offloading channel; petabyte range; piggybacking data; vehicular carriers; worldwide road infrastructure; Bandwidth; Data transfer; Delay; Internet; Roads; Vehicles;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location
Seoul
ISSN
2157-9857
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-4995-6
Electronic_ISBN
2157-9857
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/VNC.2012.6407418
Filename
6407418
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