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A Business-Oriented Management Framework for Mobile Communication Systems

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The incremental efforts needed to manage low-level radio access network decisions from a business-perspective have received little attention so far. This paper considers the influence of business-level indicators on network management decisions related to low-level network control mechanisms. It provides a formal understanding of all involved aspects, the representation of the adjustable parameters, and the network control mechanisms that enable the reconfiguration of access network entities from a business perspective (i.e., users’ information, operator’s goals). The effectiveness of our approach is validated through a simulation environment that we developed on OPNET.

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Acknowledgments

This work has been partially funded by the Spanish project C3SEM (TEC2009-14598-C02-01/02). Hiram Galeana-Zapién, Javier Rubio-Loyola, Pablo Salazar-Linares would like to express their special acknowledgment to the OPNET’s University Program for their support.

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  1. CINVESTAV-Tamaulipas, Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico

    Hiram Galeana-Zapién, Javier Rubio-Loyola & Pablo Salazar-Linares

  2. Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Cantabria, Spain

    Ramón Agüero

  3. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

    Joan Serrat

  4. Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland

    Steven Davy

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Galeana-Zapién, H., Rubio-Loyola, J., Salazar-Linares, P. et al. A Business-Oriented Management Framework for Mobile Communication Systems. Mobile Netw Appl 17, 479–491 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11036-012-0378-y

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