Rising Cellular Multimedia IoT: the Call for an Application-Aware Resource Management

Abstract

Traditional Mobile broadband (MBB) will not have the lion's share of cellular network anymore with the billion things connected to the Internet. The design of the network has to change to adopt the demands of various applications, and especially Internet of Things (IoT). Moreover, multimedia IoT (M-IoT) applications with massive data volume and different requirements than both IoT and MBB are new challenges. In this paper, we remark some points that indicate we need an efficient network management system to deal with various M-IoT applications in the future cellular networks. We also present connected cars as a case study and investigate their characteristics and demands.