Paper Info
Title
A Capacity Broker Architecture And Framework For Multi-Tenant Support In Lte-A Networks
Abstract
Resource allocation in multi-operator scenarios requires an estimate of the tenants' traffic needs. This is necessary in the scenario where a Mobile Network Operator (MNO) owns the Radio Access Network (RAN) and many Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) act as resellers of their host network's capacity under their own brands, to their own customers. In such scenarios, the forecasted MVNO traffic is the basis for providing resources suitable with the corresponding MVNOs demand. To that end, the dynamic provision of resources among MVNOs should be performed in flexible, short-term time scales. In this paper, we effectively address this issue by integrating the capacity broker into the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) network management architecture using the minimum set of enhancements. In addition, to fully exploit its capabilities, we propose the Multi-tenant Slicing (MuSli) of capacity algorithm, to allocate resources towards MVNOs in coarse time scales. MuSli considers the estimated capacity and the impact of the traffic type (i.e., guaranteed QoS and Best-Effort) in each MVNO, to provide better utilization of the host network's capacity. Our results highlight the gains in the number of served requests without compromising their service quality.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/ICC.2016.7511042
2016 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (ICC)
Field
DocType
ISSN
Resource management,Mobile network operator,Computer science,Public land mobile network,Computer network,Quality of service,Real-time computing,Host (network),Resource allocation,Network management,Radio access network
Conference
1550-3607
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.42
8
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Georgia Tseliou1677.17
Konstantinos Samdanis259647.43
Ferran Adelantado331626.30
Xavier Costa-Pérez444146.50
Christos V. Verikoukis51348115.34