TY - GEN
T1 - IoT Communication Sharing: Scenarios, Algorithms and Implementation
AU - Hu, Chuang
AU - Bao, Wei
AU - Wang, Dan
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to acknowledge the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61272464 and RGC/GRF under Grant PolyU 5264/13E. This work was also supported by the University of Sydney DVC Research/Bridging Support Grant.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/10/8
Y1 - 2018/10/8
N2 - Nowadays, manufacturers want to collect the data of their sold-products to the cloud, so that they can conduct analysis and improve the operation, maintenance and services of their products. Manufacturers are looking for a self-contained solution for data transmission since their products are typically deployed in a large number of different buildings, and it is neither feasible to negotiate with each building to use the building's network (e.g., WiFi) nor practical to establish its own network infrastructure. ISPs are aware of this market. Since the readily available 3G/4G is over costly for most IoT devices, ISPs are developing new choices. Nevertheless, it can be expected that the choices from ISPs will not be fine-grained enough to match hundreds or thousands of requirements on different costs and data volumes from the IoT applications. To address this problem, we for the first time propose IoT communication sharing (ICS). We first clarify the ICS scenarios. We then formulate the IoT communication sharing (ICS) problem, and develop a set of algorithms with provable performance. We further present our implementation of a fully functioning system. Our evaluations show that ICS and our algorithms can lead to a cost reduction of five times and eight times respectively for the two real-world cases.
AB - Nowadays, manufacturers want to collect the data of their sold-products to the cloud, so that they can conduct analysis and improve the operation, maintenance and services of their products. Manufacturers are looking for a self-contained solution for data transmission since their products are typically deployed in a large number of different buildings, and it is neither feasible to negotiate with each building to use the building's network (e.g., WiFi) nor practical to establish its own network infrastructure. ISPs are aware of this market. Since the readily available 3G/4G is over costly for most IoT devices, ISPs are developing new choices. Nevertheless, it can be expected that the choices from ISPs will not be fine-grained enough to match hundreds or thousands of requirements on different costs and data volumes from the IoT applications. To address this problem, we for the first time propose IoT communication sharing (ICS). We first clarify the ICS scenarios. We then formulate the IoT communication sharing (ICS) problem, and develop a set of algorithms with provable performance. We further present our implementation of a fully functioning system. Our evaluations show that ICS and our algorithms can lead to a cost reduction of five times and eight times respectively for the two real-world cases.
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U2 - 10.1109/INFOCOM.2018.8486329
DO - 10.1109/INFOCOM.2018.8486329
M3 - Conference article published in proceeding or book
AN - SCOPUS:85056151467
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
SP - 1556
EP - 1564
BT - INFOCOM 2018 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2018 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2018
Y2 - 15 April 2018 through 19 April 2018
ER -