Common Radio Resource Management for Multiaccess Wireless Networks

Multiaccess (MA) networks are systems created by the integration of two or more radio access technologies (RATs) which cooperate, in order to provide a better use of their complementary features, aiming at a higher performance as a whole. In order to achieve this integration, a logical entity called common radio resource management (CRRM) is adopted, whose role is to perform a higher level management. CRRM allows the communication and coordination among different RATs to accomplish overall performance goals. Even though it seems quite obvious to combine radio access technologys (RATs) that have complementary features, the cost–benefit tradeoff behind this aggregation is uncertain, as it may demand modifications to the standards and addition of extra network nodes. Radio access networks consisting of multiple integrated RATs are called here as MA networks. Historically, the initial motivation for creating MA networks was the fact that people roaming from one place to the other could not use their mobile terminals, especially in the case where technologies were different. As such, since the beginning of the third generation (3G) standardization efforts, the possibility to integrate a broad range of technologies, ranging from cellular networks to low earth orbit satellites [42], was considered. This integration was initially proposed with the creation of the international mobile telecommunications (IMT)-2000 by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in the 1990s. Real interoperability between access technologies came some years later, with the standards coordinated by the 3rd. Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). 3GPP’s Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS) was created to support the integration of the wideband code division multiple-access (WCDMA) and global system for mobile communication (GSM)/enhanced data rate for GSM evolution (EDGE), so as to enhance the lifetime of the GSM equipment and provide a smooth upgrade transition to 3G [27].

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