Demo: opportunistic communications to alleviate cellular infrastructures: the FP7-moto approach

Over the latest few years, we have witnessed the widespread diffusion of smartphones, tablets, and other mobile devices with diverse networking and multimedia capabilities. Major operators in the US and Europe are experiencing severe problems in coping with the mobile data traffic generated by their users. The main reason is that the trend of traffic demand is exponentially increasing, while the improvements at the physical layer are bounded by the famous Shannon theorem and by the fact that the licensed spectrum is a limited and scarce resource. The FP7 MOTO project proposes to design, implement, and evaluate an architecture that takes full advantage of the latest advances in opportunistic networking to achieve effi- cient traffic offloading.