Since smart phones are always equipped with both cellular and Wi-Fi interfaces, this paper exploits the feasibility of the Wi-Fi based Device-to-Device (D2D) offloading mechanism to reduce cellular traffic. In our group LBS scenario, a group of users travel outdoors together and utilize their smart phones to form a mobile converged network, which is composed of cellular and Wi-Fi networks, to download and share the neighboring LBS data. Due to the wide-range coverage of the cellular network and the keeping-moving characteristic of users, one of these smart phones is selected to play the role of mobile proxy to download the shared LBS data using its cellular interface and then disseminate to other members using multicast over the Wi-Fi network, in which one adaptive FEC mechanism is adopted to tackle the packet loss situation. Besides, a user-transparent Machine-toMachine (M2M) based mobile proxy handoff mechanism is devised such that each smart phone can play the role of mobile proxy alternately to evenly consume each smart phone's power and thus extend the service time of the group LBS scenario. That is, the proposed offloading mechanism not only offloads the cellular network traffic but also reduces the power consumption.
This paper presents an optical force driven nano-machined actuator and the "pull-back" effect of a free-standing arc in an opto-mechanical ring resonator system. This nano-actuator obtains a maximal central displacement of 43.1 nm, with an actuation resolution of 0.28 nm, via tuning the wavelength of the control light at a fixed optical power of 2.8 mW. The "pull-back" effect occurs at the maximal displacement position, which is studied by the combination of experiments and simulation. Potential applications include bio-nano-motor, all-optical switches and opto-mechanical memories.
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