An Auction Based Joint Radio Resource Management Scheme and Architecture in a Multi-Operator Scenario

This article proposes an auction mechanism based scheme for joint radio resource management (JRRM) in a reconfigurable system in a multi-operator scenario. Through the periodical auction and transaction for the radio resource between different radio access technologies (RATs) of multiple operators, the spare radio resource can be fully utilized to meet the demand of the RATs being short of radio resource. In order to rationally handle the profit assignment between multiple operators, a specific pricing strategy is put forward. In addition, a novel architecture is also presented to support this JRRM scheme. Simulation results reveal that the proposed scheme not only effectively reduces the total session blocking probability, but also greatly improves the total radio resource utilization ratio and the profits of operators.