Network slicing is a critical driver for guaranteeing the diverse service level agreements (SLA) in 5G and future networks. Recently, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has been widely utmzed for resource allocation in network slicing. However, existing related works do not consider the performance loss associated with the initial exploration phase of DRL. This paper proposes a new performance-guaranteed slicing strategy with a soft and hard hybrid slicing setting. Mainly, a common slice setting is applied to guarantee slices’ SLA when training the neural network. Moreover, the resource of the common slice tends to precisely redistribute to slices with the training of DRL until it converges. Furthermore, experiment results confirm the effectiveness of our proposed slicing framework: the slices’ SLA of the training phase can be guaranteed, and the proposed algorithm can achieve the near-optimal performance in terms of the SLA satisfaction ratio, isolation degree and spectrum efficiency after convergence.


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    Title :

    A Hard and Soft Hybrid Slicing Framework for Service Level Agreement Guarantee via Deep Reinforcement Learning


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    Publication date :

    2022-06-01


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    619869 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English