Cell Load and Resource-aware Flow Shifting Scheme based on Heterogeneous Mobile Networks Data

Abstract

In the past decade, 4G networks have been widely deployed, meanwhile, 5G networks start to deploy recently. 4G and 5G heterogeneous mobile networks envisage the challenge of imbalanced user distribution with uneven resource utilization. Above challenge will become deteriorated under emergency scenarios (e.g., disaster, crisis). In order to address the imbalanced user distribution with uneven resource utilization, this paper designs a novel 4G/5G heterogeneous mobile networks data (HMND) system. On the basis of this HMND system, we propose cell load and resource-aware flow shifting (CLRFS) scheme. The HMND system and CLRFS scheme are deployed in a city to verify the performance. Results show that the HMND system and CLRFS scheme can evaluate both the 4G cells and 5G cells precisely, as well as assist telecom operator to shift traffic among 4G and 5G.