Radio Access Network and Spectrum Sharing in Mobile Networks: A Stochastic Geometry Perspective

Next generation mobile networks will rely ever more heavily on resource sharing. In this paper, we study the sharing of radio access network and spectrum among mobile operators. We assess the impact of sharing these two types of resources on the performance of spatially distributed mobile networks. We apply stochastic geometry to observe the combined effect of, for example, the level of spatial clustering among the deployed base stations, the shared network size, or the coordination in shared spectrum use on network coverage and expected user data rate. We uncover some complex effects of mobile network resource sharing, which involve nonlinearly scaling gains and performance tradeoffs related to the sharing scenario or the spatial clustering level.

[1]  Tinku Mohamed Rasheed,et al.  On the role of infrastructure sharing for mobile network operators in emerging markets , 2011, Comput. Networks.

[2]  Christos V. Verikoukis,et al.  Scalable RAN Virtualization in Multitenant LTE-A Heterogeneous Networks , 2016, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

[3]  Peter Han Joo Chong,et al.  Poisson Hole Process: Theory and Applications to Wireless Networks , 2016, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[4]  Matti Latva-aho,et al.  Co-Primary Multi-Operator Resource Sharing for Small Cell Networks , 2015, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[5]  Martin Haenggi,et al.  A Stochastic Geometry Analysis of Inter-Cell Interference Coordination and Intra-Cell Diversity , 2014, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[6]  Martin Haenggi,et al.  On distances in uniformly random networks , 2005, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.

[7]  Luis Alonso,et al.  Energy-efficient infrastructure sharing in multi-operator mobile networks , 2015, IEEE Communications Magazine.

[8]  Luiz A. DaSilva,et al.  Efficient coverage through inter-operator infrastructure sharing in mobile networks , 2013, 2013 IFIP Wireless Days (WD).

[9]  Jeffrey G. Andrews,et al.  On the Feasibility of Sharing Spectrum Licenses in mmWave Cellular Systems , 2015, IEEE Transactions on Communications.

[10]  Martin Haenggi,et al.  Success probabilities in Gauss-Poisson networks with and without cooperation , 2014, 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory.

[11]  Martin Haenggi,et al.  Spatial Stochastic Models and Metrics for the Structure of Base Stations in Cellular Networks , 2013, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[12]  A. Tolli,et al.  Inter-Operator Spectrum Sharing in a Broadband Cellular Network , 2006, 2006 IEEE Ninth International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications.

[13]  Ismael Gomez-Miguelez,et al.  Effect of LOS/NLOS propagation on area spectral efficiency and energy efficiency of small-cells , 2014, 2014 IEEE Global Communications Conference.

[14]  Roy D. Yates,et al.  Mobile Network Resource Sharing Options: Performance Comparisons , 2013, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[15]  Kerstin Vogler,et al.  Table Of Integrals Series And Products , 2016 .

[16]  Luiz A. DaSilva,et al.  Modelling Multi-Operator Base Station Deployment Patterns in Cellular Networks , 2016, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

[17]  Pei Liu,et al.  The urge to merge: When cellular service providers pool capacity , 2011, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).

[18]  I. S. Gradshteyn,et al.  Table of Integrals, Series, and Products , 1976 .

[19]  Langford B. White,et al.  Cooperative resource allocation games in shared networks: symmetric and asymmetric fair bargaining models , 2008, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[20]  Luiz A. DaSilva,et al.  Mobile network sharing between operators: a demand trace-driven study , 2014, CSWS@SIGCOMM.

[21]  Hamid Aghvami,et al.  Understanding UMTS Radio Network Modelling, Planning and Automated Optimisation: Theory and Practice , 2006 .

[22]  Ki Won Sung,et al.  Technical rate of substitution of spectrum in future mobile broadband provisioning , 2015, 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN).

[23]  François Baccelli,et al.  Stochastic Geometry and Wireless Networks, Volume 1: Theory , 2009, Found. Trends Netw..

[24]  Jeffrey G. Andrews,et al.  A Primer on Cellular Network Analysis Using Stochastic Geometry , 2016, ArXiv.

[25]  Thomas Frisanco,et al.  Infrastructure Sharing and Shared Operations for Mobile Network Operators: From a Deployment and Operations View , 2008, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications.

[26]  F. Baccelli,et al.  Stochastic Geometry and Wireless Networks, Part I: Theory , 2009 .

[27]  Jeffrey G. Andrews,et al.  Spectrum Sharing for Device-to-Device Communication in Cellular Networks , 2013, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

[28]  Sundeep Rangan,et al.  Resource sharing in 5G mmWave cellular networks , 2016, 2016 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS).

[29]  Luiz A. DaSilva,et al.  Substitutability of Spectrum and Cloud-Based Antennas in Virtualized Wireless Networks , 2017, IEEE Wireless Communications.

[30]  Luiz A. DaSilva,et al.  Infrastructure and spectrum sharing trade-offs in mobile networks , 2015, 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN).

[31]  Marco Di Renzo,et al.  Average Rate of Downlink Heterogeneous Cellular Networks over Generalized Fading Channels: A Stochastic Geometry Approach , 2013, IEEE Transactions on Communications.

[32]  Carlo Fischione,et al.  Spectrum Pooling in MmWave Networks: Opportunities, Challenges, and Enablers , 2016, IEEE Communications Magazine.

[33]  Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville,et al.  Resource sharing in heterogeneous cloud radio access networks , 2015, IEEE Wireless Communications.

[34]  Martin Haenggi,et al.  Stochastic Geometry for Wireless Networks , 2012 .

[35]  Shanshan Wang,et al.  On spectrum and infrastructure sharing in multi-operator cellular networks , 2016, 2016 23rd International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT).

[36]  Antonio Capone,et al.  Evaluating the performance of infrastructure sharing in mobile radio networks , 2015, 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC).

[37]  Jan Markendahl,et al.  On the engineering value of spectrum in dense mobile network deployment scenarios , 2015, 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN).

[38]  Jeffrey G. Andrews,et al.  A Tractable Approach to Coverage and Rate in Cellular Networks , 2010, IEEE Transactions on Communications.

[39]  Leonardo Badia,et al.  Spectrum sharing improves the network efficiency for cellular operators , 2014, IEEE Communications Magazine.

[40]  Jeffrey G. Andrews,et al.  Gains of Restricted Secondary Licensing in Millimeter Wave Cellular Systems , 2016, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.