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Author:

Wu, Wenjun (Wu, Wenjun.) | Yang, Feng (Yang, Feng.) | Gao, Yang (Gao, Yang.) | Wang, Xiaoxi (Wang, Xiaoxi.) | Si, Pengbo (Si, Pengbo.) | Zhang, Yanhua (Zhang, Yanhua.) (Scholars:张延华) | Yu, Fei Richard (Yu, Fei Richard.)

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Abstract:

Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) with end-to-end (E2E) network slicing are regarded as effective approaches to meet diverse service requirements from vertical industries. Due to the dense deployment of base stations (BSs) and the complicated associations between BSs and E2E network slices (NSs) in the scenario, the handoff problem faces challenges of the huge system state space and handoff action space and the considerable communication overhead. In this paper, we take these issues into account and consider a distributed E2E NS handoff decision framework in the HetNet. A decentralized Markov decision process (DEC-MDP)-based model is formulated for the distributed E2E NS handoff problem, and the jointly observable and random characteristics of the DEC-MDP are analyzed. To obtain a theoretical performance reference, the original distributed E2E NS handoff problem is simplified, and a Nash equilibrium-based performance bound is given. More practically, the multi-agent double deep Q-network-based distributed handoff (MA-DDQN-DH) algorithm with the centralized training and decentralized executing framework is proposed. Simulation results show that the Nash equilibrium-based performance bound is reasonable, and the proposed MA-DDQN-DH algorithm performs well in the comparison.

Keyword:

Heuristic algorithms Bandwidth Distributed network slice handoff decentralized Markov decision process Nash equilibrium Quality of service Real-time systems Costs multi-agent deep reinforcement learning Training Network slicing

Author Community:

  • [ 1 ] [Wu, Wenjun]Beijing Univ Technol, Fac Informat Technol, Beijing 100124, Peoples R China
  • [ 2 ] [Yang, Feng]Beijing Univ Technol, Fac Informat Technol, Beijing 100124, Peoples R China
  • [ 3 ] [Gao, Yang]Beijing Univ Technol, Fac Informat Technol, Beijing 100124, Peoples R China
  • [ 4 ] [Wang, Xiaoxi]Beijing Univ Technol, Fac Informat Technol, Beijing 100124, Peoples R China
  • [ 5 ] [Si, Pengbo]Beijing Univ Technol, Fac Informat Technol, Beijing 100124, Peoples R China
  • [ 6 ] [Zhang, Yanhua]Beijing Univ Technol, Fac Informat Technol, Beijing 100124, Peoples R China
  • [ 7 ] [Yu, Fei Richard]Carleton Univ, Dept Syst & Comp Engn, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada

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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

ISSN: 1536-1276

Year: 2022

Issue: 12

Volume: 21

Page: 11222-11236

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ESI Discipline: COMPUTER SCIENCE;

ESI HC Threshold:46

JCR Journal Grade:1

CAS Journal Grade:1

Cited Count:

WoS CC Cited Count: 6

SCOPUS Cited Count: 10

ESI Highly Cited Papers on the List: 0 Unfold All

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30 Days PV: 8

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