Advanced Resource management solutions for future all IP heterOgeneous Mobile rAdio environments

The objective of the AROMA project is to devise and assess a set of specific resource management strategies and algorithms for both the access and core network parts that guarantee the end-to-end QoS in the context of an all-IP heterogeneous network. In order to achieve this main objective, the following partial goals are addressed in the project:

• To identify, propose, simulate, assess and validate advanced Radio ResourceManagement (RRM) algorithms for GERAN and UMTS as well as novel radio concepts beyond 3G (B3G).
• To develop Advanced Common RRM (CRRM), covering among other: CRRM algorithms exploiting the non-homogeneous system conditions along time, Load-sharing CRRM algorithms using GERAN and UTRA MBMS, and Cross layer RRM algorithms based on IP-RAN.
• To propose, simulate, assess and validate innovative end-to-end QoS strategies considering both radio and core network aspects under a variety of conditions, at least including: MPLS and lower-layer
• To develop mechanisms allowing an automated tuning of the CRRM/RRM algorithms and corresponding parameters via network management software.
• To carry out economic evaluation on the impacts of the novel solutions considered by the project.

Therefore, the AROMA project aims not only to asses and maximize the potential benefits coming from the medium-term evolution of the considered radio-access technologies (e.g. HSDPA/HSUPA; MBMS) but in parallel also to promote and investigate potential benefits coming from a long-term evolution towards an all IP heterogeneous mobile and wireless network architecture. In that context, the RAN architecture should be also evolved to accommodate future IP-based networks, which allow a common transport even in different access networks, simple resource management, and easy heterogeneous inter-working.

Project Website: http://www.aroma-ist.upc.edu/