One of the key features of the 5G architecture is network slicing, which allows the simultaneous support of diverse service types with heterogeneous requirements over a common network infrastructure. In order to support this feature in the Radio Access Network (RAN), it is required to have capacity sharing mechanisms that distribute the available capacity in each cell among the existing RAN slices while satisfying their requirements and efficiently using the available resources. Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) techniques are good candidates to deal with the complexity of capacity sharing in multi-cell scenarios where the traffic in the different cells can be heterogeneously distributed in the time and space domains. In this paper, a multi-agent reinforcement learning-based solution for capacity sharing in multi-cell scenarios is discussed and assessed under heterogeneous traffic conditions. Results show the capability of the solution to satisfy the requirements of the RAN slices while using the resources in the different cells efficiently.


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    Title :

    Evaluation of a Multi-cell and Multi-tenant Capacity Sharing Solution under Heterogeneous Traffic Distributions


    Contributors:
    Vila, I. (author) / Perez-Romero, J. (author) / Sallent, O. (author) / Umbert, A. (author)


    Publication date :

    2021-04-01


    Size :

    1683622 byte





    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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