標題: | Multi-Operator Fairness in Transparent RAN Sharing by Soft-Partition With Blocking and Dropping Mechanism |
作者: | Chien, Hsu-Tung Lin, Ying-Dar Chang, Hsien-Wen Lai, Chia-Lin 資訊工程學系 Department of Computer Science |
關鍵字: | Radio access network (RAN);RAN sharing;soft partition;fairness;utilization;blocking rate;dropping rate |
公開日期: | 1-Dec-2018 |
摘要: | Radio access network (RAN) sharing has attracted significant attention from telecom operators as a means of accommodating data surges. However, current mechanisms for RAN sharing ignore the fairness issue among operators, and hence the RAN may be under- or over-utilized. Furthermore, the fairness among different operators cannot be guaranteed, since the RAN resources are distributed on a first come, first served basis. Accordingly, the present study proposes a "soft-partition with blocking and dropping" (SBD) mechanism that offers inter-operator fairness using a "soft-partition" approach. In particular, the operator subscribers are permitted to overuse the resources specified in the predefined service-level-agreement when the shared RAN is under-utilized, but are blocked (or even dropped) when the RAN is over-utilized. The simulation results show that SBD achieves an inter-operator fairness of 0.997, which is higher than that of both a hard-partition approach (0.98) and a no-partition approach (0.6) while maintaining a shared RAN utilization rate of 98%. Furthermore, SBD reduces the blocking rate from 35% (hard partition approach) to almost 0%, whereas controlling the dropping rate at 5%. Notably, the dropping rate can be reduced to almost 0% using a newly proposed bandwidth scale down procedure. |
URI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2018.2872042 http://hdl.handle.net/11536/148624 |
ISSN: | 0018-9545 |
DOI: | 10.1109/TVT.2018.2872042 |
期刊: | IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY |
Volume: | 67 |
起始頁: | 11597 |
結束頁: | 11605 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles |