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Data-Driven Adaptive Network Slicing for Multi-Tenant Networks

Signal Processing 2022-02-23 v1

Abstract

Network slicing to support multi-tenancy plays a key role in improving the performance of 5G networks. In this paper, we propose a two time-scale framework for the reservation-based network slicing in the backhaul and Radio Access Network (RAN). In the proposed two time-scale scheme, a subset of network slices is activated via a novel sparse optimization framework in the long time-scale with the goal of maximizing the expected utilities of tenants while in the short time-scale the activated slices are reconfigured according to the time-varying user traffic and channel states. Specifically, using the statistics from users and channels and also considering the expected utility from serving users of a slice and the reconfiguration cost, we formulate a sparse optimization problem to update the configuration of a slice resources such that the maximum isolation of reserved resources is enforced. The formulated optimization problems for long and short time-scales are non-convex and difficult to solve. We use the q\ell_q-norm, 0<q<10<q<1, and group LASSO regularizations to iteratively find convex approximations of the optimization problems. We propose a Frank-Wolfe algorithm to iteratively solve approximated problems in long time-scales. To cope with the dynamical nature of traffic variations, we propose a fast, distributed algorithm to solve the approximated optimization problems in short time-scales. Simulation results demonstrate the performance of our approaches relative to optimal solutions and the existing state of the art method.

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@article{arxiv.2106.03282,
  title  = {Data-Driven Adaptive Network Slicing for Multi-Tenant Networks},
  author = {Navid Reyhanian and Zhi-Quan Luo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.03282},
  year   = {2022}
}
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