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Converged Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Based on Resource Virtualization

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Dense heterogeneous networks (HetNets) are supposed to be one of the most inevitable modalities of future radio access networks (RAN). Though the deployment of dense HetNets would allow wireless networks to achieve high data rate, it also brings severe interference, frequent handover and increasing CAPEX and OPEX, etc. Hence, the convergence of different kinds of networks is becoming more and more urgent. In this paper, a converged management architecture for HetNets (CMA) based on resource virtualization is proposed. Considering the diversity of physical resources among different networks, we virtualize the heterogeneous resources into a unified 3-D resource particle, and introduce a virtual resource layer (VRL) into CMA to govern the virtual resources. And on this basis, the architecture and key technologies of CMA are presented. Moreover, we show that CMA could whittle traditional HetNets management down to the procedure of virtual resources allocation by demonstrating some use cases. In addition, the implementation issues of CMA are analyzed.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the 863 project No. 2014AA01A701, the Ministry of Education-CMCC research fund No. MCM20130132, and Beijing Municipal Science and technology Commission research fund project “The Design of Radio Access Network Architecture in 5G communication system”.

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    Luhan Wang, Zhaoming Lu, Xiangming Wen & Wanqing Guan

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Wang, L., Lu, Z., Wen, X. et al. Converged Management in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks Based on Resource Virtualization. Mobile Netw Appl 20, 53–61 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-015-0573-8

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