Joint resource segmentation and transmission rate adaptation in Cloud RAN with Caching as a Service

Jianhua Tang, Tony Q.S. Quek, Wee Peng Tay

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Abstract

By introducing Caching as a Service (CaaS) in Cloud radio access network (C-RAN), the joint resource segmentation and transmission rate adaptation problem is investigated in this paper. Specifically, in the baseband unit (BBU) pool of C-RAN, we optimally segment computation and storage resources to different types of virtual machines (VMs), and in the remote radio heads (RRHs), we adjust the beamformers to obtain the cache-based adaptive rate (CBAR). We aim to minimize the system cost, which includes server cost, VM cost and wireless transmission cost. The joint optimization problem is formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem, which contains l0-norm terms in the objective function and nonconvex constraints. We propose a three-step solution approach, i.e., a general smooth function approximation step, a weighted minimum mean square error (WMMSE) reformulation step and an integer recovery step. Simulation results show that our proposed integer recovery algorithms recover the integer variable values effectively.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSPAWC 2016 - 17th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781509017492
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016 Aug 9
Event17th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC 2016 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Duration: 2016 Jul 32016 Jul 6

Publication series

NameIEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC
Volume2016-August

Conference

Conference17th IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications, SPAWC 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityEdinburgh
Period16-07-0316-07-06

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Information Systems

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