Design of Common Resource Management and Network Simulator in Heterogeneous Radio Access Network Environment

By the newly emerging radio access technologies, we face the new heterogeneous network environment. Focusing on the co-existence of multiple access networks and the complex service combinations, the wireless service operators should guarantee good quality of services for every user. Thus, the service operators build a new operation framework which combines the existing networks and newly adopted ones. Our objective is finding the optimal heterogeneous network operation framework. We suggest the market-based marginal cost function for evaluating the relative value of resources for each network and develop a whole new heterogeneous network operation framework. To prove the applicability of the proposed operation framework, we build a large-scale JAVA simulator. We can easily test the various service scenarios in heterogeneous network environment by the simulator.

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