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Lee, Ying Loong and Chuah, Teong Chee and Loo, Jonathan and Ke, Feng (2024) Proportional-fair uplink resource allocation with statistical QoS provisioning for RAN slicing. Physical Communication, 65. p. 102389. ISSN 1874-4907

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Abstract

This paper investigates the uplink resource allocation issue for radio access network (RAN) slicing with a focus on three primary fifth generation (5G) use cases, namely ultra-reliable low-latency communications (uRLLC), enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and massive machine-type communications (mMTC). Most of the existing resource allocation schemes for RAN slicing were designed to address the use cases in downlink communications. However, these schemes are not applicable to the uplink RAN slicing, even though the primary use cases also entail stringent requirements in the uplink. To this end, we aim to develop a new, fairness-aware uplink resource allocation scheme for RAN slicing, catering to the three 5G use cases. Firstly, we formulate a new uplink resource allocation optimization problem that maximizes a sum logarithmic utility for ensuring proportional-fair effective capacity distribution and resource allocation among RAN slices, subject to the distinct quality of service (QoS) requirements of the uRLLC, eMBB and mMTC slices. Then, an efficient, hierarchical resource allocation framework is then proposed to solve the problem deterministically, whereby resource block assignment is first performed at the base station via a demand-oriented greedy algorithm, followed by power allocation using a bisection method at individual user equipment. Results show that the proposed scheme outperforms the baseline schemes with fairness and QoS provisioning performance gains of up to 44.3% and 19.17% respectively.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Resource allocation, RAN slicing, QoS, Effective capacity, Fairness
Subjects:	T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK5101-6720 Telecommunication. Including telegraphy, telephone, radio, radar, television
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering (FOE)
Depositing User:	Ms Nurul Iqtiani Ahmad
Date Deposited:	03 Jul 2024 02:44
Last Modified:	03 Jul 2024 02:45
URII:	http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/id/eprint/12578

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