MONASIDRE developed a unified resource management platform for B3G systems. This consists of a Service and Network Resource Management (SNRM) system that facilitates the transactions between service providers (SPs) and network operators (NOs), as well as between co-operating NOs, and configures the operators' networks properly, taking into account the load and the requested services, in a Composite Radio (CR) context.
Due to the complementary role of the wireless access networks of a CR infrastructure, a NO can choose, instead of rejecting users or of degrading their Quality of Service (QoS) levels, to direct them to an alternate radio technology. For users and SPs, the supporting radio technology can be irrelevant, as long as cost and QoS criteria are met, and multi-mode terminals are used. Therefore, the SNRM platform that MONASIDRE deployed consists an innovative development that boosts the evolution, enhancement and effectiveness of e-business, e-work, and e-commerce applications, by supporting quality for new, sophisticated services, and by proposing new business ideas. Individuals, organisations, and markets can benefit from the advantages of such applications. SPs are enabled to better serve their customers, and NOs are able to increase their market share by promoting their infrastructure. Additionally, NOs exploit their networks more efficiently.