Cloud Radio Access Network is a promising mobile network architecture based on centralizing the baseband processing of many cellular base stations in a BBU (BaseBand Unit) pool. Such architecture has many advantages. However, computing resources are shared among the base stations connected to the BBU pool. It is challenging to schedule the processing of users' data, especially on overloaded BBU pools, while respecting the time constraints imposed by the Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) mechanism. Given that the processing time of users' data and the computing requirement depends on the radio parameters such as the Modulation and Coding Scheme (MCS), we propose to enable the coordination between radio and computing resources schedulers; such coordination makes the selection of MCS dependent on the availability of radio and computing resources and on the ability to process data while respecting the HARQ-deadline. In this context, we propose and evaluate three Integer Linear Programming (ILP)-based schemes and three low-complexity heuristics, demonstrating their ability to reduce the wasted transmission power. Moreover, we evaluate the performance of the coordination under a multiservices scenario consisting of two services having heterogeneous requirements, enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) and Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC).
Cloud Radio Access Network (Cloud-RAN) is a novel architecture that aims at centralizing the baseband processing of base stations. This architecture opens paths for joint, flexible, and optimal management of radio and computing resources. To increase the benefit from this architecture, efficient resource management algorithms need to be devised. In this paper, we consider a coordinated allocation of radio and computing resources to mobile users. Optimal resource allocation that respects the Hybrid-Automatic-Repeat-Request deadline may require formulating high-complexity and resourceheavy algorithms. We consider two Integer Linear Programming problems (ILP) that implement a coordinated allocation of radio and computing resources with the objectives of maximizing throughput and maximizing users' satisfaction, respectively. Since solving these highly-complex problems requires a high execution time, we investigate low-complexity alternatives based on machine learning models; more precisely on Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN). These RNN models aim to depict the performance of the ILP problems with a much lower execution time. Our simulation results demonstrate the great ability of RNN models to perform very closely to the ILP problems while being able to reduce the execution time by up to 99.65%.
Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) is a novel architecture aiming to disaggregate the network components to reduce capital and operational costs and open the interfaces to ensure interoperability. In this work, we consider the problem of allocating computing resources to process the data of enhanced Mobile BroadBand (eMBB) users and Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency (URLLC) Users. Supposing the processing of users' frames from different base stations is done in a shared O-Cloud, we model the computing resources allocation problem as an Integer Linear Programming (ILP) problem that aims at fairly allocating computing resources to eMBB and URLLC users and optimizing the QoS of URLLC users without neglecting eMBB users. Due to the high complexity of solving an ILP problem, we model the problem using Reinforcement Learning (RL). Our results demonstrate the ability of our RL-based solution to perform close to the ILP solver while having much lower computational complexity. For a different number of Open Radio Units (O-RUs), the objective value of the RL agent does not deviate from the ILP objective by more than 6%.
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