MNO Selection Mechanism Evaluation

Automatic and On-demand

MNO Selection Mechanism
2014 SmartenIT, FLAMINGO, and CSG
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http://www.smartenit.eu
http://www.fp7-flamingo.eu
http://www.abacusproject.eu
stiller@ifi.uzh.ch
tsiaras@ifi.uzh.ch
samuel.liniger@uzh.ch
Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller
Christos Tsiaras
Samuel Liniger
http://www.csg.uzh.ch
AbaCUS Ecosystem
AbaCUS:
Auction-based Charging and User-
centric System
Enables competition in the mobile
termination service market
Caller Callee Au
2
1. Service Request
2. Change MNO
4. Ready to call
3. OK
Process
Power
[W]
Talk 3G 0.7050
0.6536
0.5406
Talk 2G 0.3333
MNO selection
moving
MNO selection
stable
CyanogenMod9
Android Community Operating System
MNO Selection Mechanism Requirements
Sign the AbaCUS App with firmwares
key
Prepaid Subscriber Identity Module
(SIM) in roaming mode
Operating
System
Software
Hardware
FLAMINGO
Automatic and On-demand MNO Selection
Scenario
Caller defines the Quality-of-Service of a
voice call
Caller defines the maximum desired amount
to pay for the call
Mobile Network Operators (MNO)
announce termination rates
MNO with the lowest termination rate is
selected to terminate the call
Callees device registers to the winning
MNO
Call is terminated by the new MNO
High-level Architecture