Title
An Agile and Distributed Mechanism for Inter-Domain Network Slicing in Next Generation Mobile Networks
Abstract
Network slicing is emerging as a promising method to provide sought after versatility and flexibility to cope with ever-increasing demands. To realize such potential advantages and to meet the challenging requirements of various network slices in an on-demand fashion, we need to develop an agile and distributed mechanism for resource provisioning to different network slices in a heterogeneous multi-resource multi-domain mobile network environment. We formulate inter-domain resource provisioning to network slices in such an environment as an optimization problem which maximizes social welfare among network slice tenants (so that maximizing tenants’ satisfaction), while minimizing operational expenditures for infrastructure service providers at the same time. To solve the envisioned problem, we implement an iterative auction game among network slice tenants, on one hand, and a plurality of price-taking subnet service providers, on the other hand. We show that the proposed solution method results in a distributed privacy-saving mechanism which converges to the <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">optimal solution</i> of the described optimization problem. In addition to providing analytical results to characterize the performance of the proposed mechanism, we also employ numerical evaluations to validate the results, demonstrate convergence of the presented algorithm, and show the enhanced performance of the proposed approach (in terms of resource utilization, fairness and operational costs) against the existing solutions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/TMC.2021.3061613
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Inter-domain network slicing,virtualization,end-to-end service provisioning,distributed implementation,multi-resource allocation
Journal
21
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
10
1536-1233
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
29
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jalal Khamse-Ashari110.35
Gamini Senarath210.35
Irem Bor-Yaliniz3282.16
Halim Yanikomeroglu441.51