Performance of Interoperator Fixed-Mobile Network Sharing

TL;DR

This paper evaluates a novel interoperator fixed-mobile network sharing method that significantly boosts network performance through software upgrades, requiring minimal new hardware, based on extensive simulations.

Contribution

It introduces a performance evaluation algorithm and provides the first large-scale assessment of interoperator sharing benefits in passive optical networks.

Findings

Operators can double network performance with software upgrades.

Sharing enables performance improvements with minimal additional hardware.

The evaluation used data from over 200,000 passive optical networks.

Abstract

We evaluate the downstream performance of our novel interoperator fixed-mobile network sharing, in which operators exchange data in their access networks. We propose a performance evaluation algorithm, and report credible performance evaluation results obtained for 204600 randomly-generated passive optical networks. We show that with the proposed sharing, operators can increase their access network performance even twofold with software-defined upgrades, and with no or minimal new hardware required.