Service provisioning framework for RAN slicing: user admissibility, slice association and bandwidth allocation

Sun, Y. , Qin, S., Feng, G., Zhang, L. and Imran, M. A. (2021) Service provisioning framework for RAN slicing: user admissibility, slice association and bandwidth allocation. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 20(12), pp. 3409-3422. (doi: 10.1109/TMC.2020.3000657)

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Abstract

Network slicing (NS) has been identified as one of the most promising architectural technologies for future mobile network systems to meet the extremely diversified service requirements of users. In radio access networks (RAN) slicing, service provisioning for slice users becomes much more complicated than that in traditional mobile networks, as the constraints of both user physical association with base station (BS) and logical association with NS should be considered. Therefore, service provisioning in RAN slicing becomes an essential yet challenging issue for 5G and beyond systems. In this paper, we propose a unified framework for service provisioning in RAN slicing with aim of maximizing resource utilization while guaranteeing QoS of users. The framework consists of two steps. The first step is to identify a set of slice users whose QoS can be satisfied simultaneously; while the second step performs joint slice association and bandwidth allocation with aim to minimize bandwidth consumption. Numerical results show that in typical scenarios, our proposed service provisioning framework can achieve significant performance gain in terms of the number of serving users and wireless bandwidth utilization compared with traditional schemes.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Imran, Professor Muhammad and Zhang, Professor Lei and Sun, Dr Yao and Feng, Professor Gang
Authors: Sun, Y., Qin, S., Feng, G., Zhang, L., and Imran, M. A.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering
College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Systems Power and Energy
Journal Name:IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Publisher:IEEE
ISSN:1536-1233
ISSN (Online):1558-0660
Published Online:08 June 2020
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2020 IEEE
First Published:First published in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 20(12):3409-3422
Publisher Policy:Reproduced under a Creative Commons License

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Project CodeAward NoProject NamePrincipal InvestigatorFunder's NameFunder RefLead Dept
304481Resource Orchestration for Diverse Radio SystemsLei ZhangEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)EP/S02476X/1ENG - Systems Power & Energy