'Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)'
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Abstract
Abstract The wide scale adoption of smartphones is
boosting cellular data traffic with the consequent capacity
constraints of cellular systems and increase in energy
consumption. A significant portion of cellular data traffic can be
deemed as delay tolerant. Such tolerance offers possibilities for
designing novel communications and networking solutions that
can accommodate the delay tolerant cellular data traffic while
reducing their impact on the overall cellular capacity and energy
consumption. In this context, this work studies the use of
opportunistic store, carry and forward techniques in Multi-Hop
Cellular Networks (MCN) to reduce energy consumption for
delay tolerant traffic. The study focuses on two-hop MCN
networks using mobile relays (MCN-MR), and identifies the
optimum mobile relay location and the location from which the
relay should start forwarding the information to the cellular base
station in order to minimize the overall energy consumption. The
study shows that the use of opportunistic store, carry and
forward techniques in MCN-MR can significantly reduce energy
consumption compared to other solutions, including traditional
single-hop cellular systems or direct contact store, carry and
forward solutions.This work is supported in part by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness and FEDER funds (TEC2011–26109)and the Local Government of Valencia with reference ACIF/2010/161 and BEFPI/2012/06