Paper Info
Title
Cooperation Incentives For Multi-Operator C-Ran Energy Efficient Sharing
Abstract
Facing the increasing energy demands associated with the perspective of fifth generation (5G) wireless networks, the Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) are motivated to gradually convert their traditional Radio Access Network (RAN) infrastructure to more flexible and power efficient centralized architectures, i.e., Cloud-RAN (C-RAN). Apart from their promising benefits in terms of management and network optimization, these new architectures further enable the sharing of spectrum and network elements, such as the Remote Radio Heads (RRHs) and the Baseband Units (BBUs), among multiple operators. In this paper, we introduce a novel scheme based on coalitional game theory to identify the potential room for cooperation among different MNOs that provide service to the same area. The proposed scheme sets the rules for profitable collaboration and identifies the core formation conditions (i.e., pricing) for various scenarios with different market and spectrum shares among three operators. Our results show that i) cooperation among sub-coalitions of MNOs is always beneficial, yielding both higher revenues and enhanced Quality of Service (QoS) for the end users, and ii) the cooperation of all operators (grand coalition) is profitable for given user pricing in different scenarios.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2017
2017 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (ICC)
Cloud-RAN, Infrastructure Sharing, Spectrum Sharing, Cooperative Games, Coalitions, Core, Pricing, HetNet
Field
DocType
ISSN
Wireless network,Telecommunications,Computer science,Quality of service,Computer network,C-RAN,Cellular network,Heterogeneous network,Network element,Radio access network,Mobile telephony
Conference
1550-3607
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.34
11
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matteo Vincenzi110.34
angelos antonopoulos248738.68
Elli Kartsakli353442.20
J. S. Vardakas49817.23
Luis Alonso593864.74
Christos V. Verikoukis61348115.34