Title
Hierarchical Policy Learning for Hybrid Communication Load Balancing
Abstract
Due to the uneven demographic distribution and people's daily activities, communication systems usually experience highly imbalanced load across different cells. This imbalance leads to unsatisfied users in the congested cells and under-utilized resources in the less-loaded cells. To deal with this issue, existing work migrates the load from heavily loaded cells to lightly loaded cells, by either handing over active mode User Equipment (UEs) to other serving cells, or re-selecting the camping cells for idle mode UEs. In this paper, we further advance the research on Load Balancing (LB) with a hybrid control of both active and idle UEs. This task is challenging, due to the conflicts between Active-UE LB (AULB) and Idle-UE LB (IULB) policies. To overcome this challenge, we propose a Hierarchical Policy Learning (HPL) framework, which coordinates the actions between LB policies with a two-level learning structure. In this way, HPL produces AULB and IULB policies that are better aligned with each other. Extensive simulation results illustrate the efficiency and efficacy of the proposed HPL.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/ICC42927.2021.9500379
IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (ICC 2021)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
load balancing, hierarchical policy learning
Conference
1550-3607
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jikun Kang101.01
Xi Chen201.01
Di Wu3636117.73
Yi Tian Xu403.04
Xue Liu562.75
Gregory Dudek676.16
Taeseop Lee700.34
Intaik Park800.34