Join-Me: um framework para integração entre provedores de serviços e operadores de redes móveis

Abstract

With the popularization of smartphones and mobile access to the Internet, Service Providers and Mobile Network Operators have employed significant efforts to increase users’ quality of experience (QoE). It is observed, however, that in such efforts there is no integration between both parties, which would allow for an enhanced and on-demand use of resources to positively impact users’ QoE. To fill this gap, this work presents Join-Me, a framework that allows Service Providers to transfer modules of their services into the infrastructure of Mobile Network Operators. With the management of such modules being done internally in the network, services may be delivered as close to the user as needed, relying on a dynamic resource management and respecting user’s privacy. Besides the needed functional components, Join-Me defines an interface that allows Service Providers to specify, for each module of a service, its resource usage demand, which they will be properly billed for. An interactive telemedicine service with ultra high definition video is used as a proof of concept, being evaluated with the Video Multimethod Assessment Fusion method, in order to concretely demonstrate QoE improvement as intended by Join-Me.