Title
A Novel Energy-Efficient Resource Allocation Approach In Limited Fronthaul Virtualized C-Rans
Abstract
We consider the downlink virtualized cloud-radio access networks (C-RANs) with limited capacity fronthaul. A novel virtual computing resource allocation (VCRA) which can dynamically split the users workload into smaller fragments to be served by virtual machines is presented. Under the proposed scheme, we aim at maximizing the network energy efficiency (EE) by a joint design of virtual computing resources, transmit beamforming, remote radio head (RRH) selection, and RRH-user association, considering rate dependent fronthaul power consumption model. The formulated problem is generally combinatorial and NP-hard. For an appealing solution approach, we resort to the difference of convex algorithm (DCA) to solve the continuous relaxed problem. In particular, Lipschitz continuity is derived for non-convex parts to arrive at a sequence of convex quadratic programs, which can be solved efficiently by modern convex solvers. Finally, a post-processing procedure is proposed to obtain a high-performance feasible solution from the continuous relaxation. Numerical results show that the proposed algorithms converge rapidly and the proposed scheme significantly improves the network EE compared to the existing schemes.
Year
Venue
Field
2018
2018 IEEE 87TH VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE (VTC SPRING)
Beamforming,Mathematical optimization,Remote radio head,Virtual machine,Efficient energy use,Computer science,Computer network,Quality of service,Resource allocation,Lipschitz continuity,Access network
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Phuong Luong1123.27
Charles L. Despins212111.79
François Gagnon323313.25
Le-Nam Tran462245.94