TY - JOUR
T1 - A fair resource sharing mechanism between mobile virtual network operators
AU - Liu, Wei
AU - Hu, Rui
AU - Shinkuma, Ryoichi
AU - Takahashi, Tatsuro
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers.
PY - 2015/11
Y1 - 2015/11
N2 - Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) are mobile operators without their own infrastructure or government issued spectrum licenses. They purchase spectrum resources from primary mobile network operators (MNOs) to provide communication services under their own brands. MVNOs are expected to play an important role in mobile network markets, as this will increase the competition in retail markets and help to meet the demand of niche markets. However, with the rapidly increasing demand of mobile data traffic, efficient utilization of the limited spectrum resources owned by MVNOs has become an important issue. We propose here a resource sharing mechanism between MVNOs against the background of network functions virtualization (NFV). The proposed mechanism enables MVNOs to improve their quality of service (QoS) by sharing spectrum resources with each other. A nash bargaining solution based decision strategy is also devised to ensure the fairness of resource sharing. Extensive numerical evaluation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed models and mechanisms.
AB - Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) are mobile operators without their own infrastructure or government issued spectrum licenses. They purchase spectrum resources from primary mobile network operators (MNOs) to provide communication services under their own brands. MVNOs are expected to play an important role in mobile network markets, as this will increase the competition in retail markets and help to meet the demand of niche markets. However, with the rapidly increasing demand of mobile data traffic, efficient utilization of the limited spectrum resources owned by MVNOs has become an important issue. We propose here a resource sharing mechanism between MVNOs against the background of network functions virtualization (NFV). The proposed mechanism enables MVNOs to improve their quality of service (QoS) by sharing spectrum resources with each other. A nash bargaining solution based decision strategy is also devised to ensure the fairness of resource sharing. Extensive numerical evaluation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed models and mechanisms.
KW - Fair resource sharing
KW - Mobile virtual network operator
KW - Network functions virtualization
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U2 - 10.1587/transcom.E98.B.2141
DO - 10.1587/transcom.E98.B.2141
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84947923240
VL - E98B
SP - 2141
EP - 2150
JO - IEICE Transactions on Communications
JF - IEICE Transactions on Communications
SN - 0916-8516
IS - 11
ER -