Age of information-aware multi-tenant resource orchestration in network slicing

Xianfu Chen, Celimuge Wu, Tao Chen, Nan Wu, Honggang Zhang, Yusheng Ji

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    Abstract

    To satisfy diverse services from mobile users (MUs) over a common network infrastructure, network slicing is envisioned as a promising technology. This paper considers radio access network (RAN)-only slicing, where the physical RAN is judiciously tailored to accommodate computation and communication functionalities. Multiple service providers (SPs, a.k.a., tenants) compete for a limited number of channels across the discrete scheduling slots in order to serve their respective subscribed MUs. From a MU perspective, the age of information of data packets from traditional mobile services and the energy consumption at mobile device are of practical importance. We characterize the interactions among the SPs via a stochastic game, in which a SP selfishly maximizes its own expected long-term payoff. To approximate the Nash equilibrium solutions, we build an abstract stochastic game exploring the local information of SPs. Furthermore, the decision-making process at a SP can be much simplified by linearly decomposing the per-SP Markov decision process, for which we derive a deep reinforcement learning based scheme to find the optimal abstract control policies. TensorFlow-based experiments validate our studies and show that the proposed scheme outperforms the three baselines and yields the best performance in average utility.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings - IEEE 17th International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, IEEE 17th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, IEEE 5th International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 4th Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC-PiCom-CBDCom-CyberSciTech 2019
    PublisherIEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
    Pages1001-1007
    Number of pages7
    ISBN (Electronic)978-1-7281-3024-8
    ISBN (Print)978-1-7281-3025-5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Aug 2019
    MoE publication typeA4 Article in a conference publication
    Event17th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, IEEE 17th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, IEEE 5th International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 4th Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC-PiCom-CBDCom-CyberSciTech 2019 - Fukuoka, Japan
    Duration: 5 Aug 20198 Aug 2019

    Conference

    Conference17th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, IEEE 17th International Conference on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, IEEE 5th International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, 4th Cyber Science and Technology Congress, DASC-PiCom-CBDCom-CyberSciTech 2019
    Country/TerritoryJapan
    CityFukuoka
    Period5/08/198/08/19

    Funding

    The work carried out in this paper was supported by the Academy of Finland under Grant 319759, the JSPS KAKENHI under Grant 18KK0279, the JST-Mirai Program under Grant JPMJMI17B3, the Telecommunications Advanced Foundation, the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant 2017YFB1301003, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61701439 and 61731002, and the Zhejiang Key Research and Development Plan under Grant 2019C01002.

    Keywords

    • Age of information
    • Deep reinforcement learning
    • Markov decision process
    • Network slicing
    • Stochastic game

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