Beam Illumination Pattern Design in Satellite Networks: Learning and Optimization for Efficient Beam Hopping

in IEEE Access (2020)

Beam hopping (BH) is considered to provide a high level of flexibility to manage irregular and time-varying traffic requests in future multi-beam satellite systems. In BH optimization, adopting ... [more ▼]

Beam hopping (BH) is considered to provide a high level of flexibility to manage irregular and time-varying traffic requests in future multi-beam satellite systems. In BH optimization, adopting conventional iterative heuristics may have their own limitations in providing timely solutions, and directly using data-driven technique to approximate optimization variables may lead to constraint violation and degraded performance. In this paper, we explore a combined learning-and-optimization (L&O) approach to provide an efficient, feasible, and near-optimal solution. The investigations are from the following aspects: 1) Integration ofBH optimization and learning techniques; 2) Features to be learned in BH design; 3) How to address the feasibility issue incurred by machine learning. We provide numerical results and analysis to show that the learning component in L&O significantly accelerates the procedure of identifying promising BH patterns, resulting in reduced computing time from seconds/minutes to milliseconds level. The identified learning feature enables high accuracy in predictions. In addition, the optimization component in L&O guarantees the solution’s feasibility and improves the overall performance with around 5% gap to the optimum. [less ▲]

Perceptive Packet Scheduling for Carrier Aggregation in Satellite Communication Systems

in IEEE International Conference on Communications, June 2020. (2020, June)

Joint Optimization for PS-based SWIPT Multiuser Systems with Non-linear Energy Harvesting

in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Seoul, 25-38 May 2020 (2020, May)

In this paper, we investigate the performance of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) multiuser systems, in which a base station serves a set of users with both information and ... [more ▼]

In this paper, we investigate the performance of simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) multiuser systems, in which a base station serves a set of users with both information and energy simultaneously via a power splitting (PS) mechanism. To capture realistic scenarios, a nonlinear energy harvesting (EH) model is considered. In particular, we jointly design the PS factors and the beamforming vectors in order to maximize the total harvested energy, subjected to rate requirements and a total transmit power budget. To deal with the inherent non-convexity of the formulated problem, an iterative optimization algorithm is proposed based on the inner approximation method and semidefinite relaxation (SDR), whose convergence is theoretically guaranteed. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme significantly outperforms the baseline max-min based SWIPT multicast and fixed-power PS designs. [less ▲]

A RAN Resource Slicing Mechanism for Multiplexing of eMBB and URLLC Services in OFDMA based 5G Wireless Networks

in IEEE Access (2020)

Enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC) are the two main expected services in the next generation of wireless networks. Accommodation of these two ... [more ▼]

Enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC) are the two main expected services in the next generation of wireless networks. Accommodation of these two services on the same wireless infrastructure leads to a challenging resource allocation problem due to their heterogeneous specifications. To address this problem, slicing has emerged as an architecture that enables a logical network with specific radio access functionality to each of the supported services on the same network infrastructure. The allocation of radio resources to each slice according to their requirements is a fundamental part of the network slicing that is usually executed at the radio access network (RAN). In this work, we formulate the RAN resource allocation problem as a sum-rate maximization problem subject to the orthogonality constraint (i.e., service isolation), latency-related constraint and minimum rate constraint while maintaining the reliability constraint with the incorporation of adaptive modulation and coding (AMC). However, the formulated problem is not mathematically tractable due to the presence of a step-wise function associated with the AMC and a binary assignment variable. Therefore, to solve the proposed optimization problem, first, we relax the mathematical intractability of AMC by using an approximation of the non-linear AMC achievable throughput, and next, the binary constraint is relaxed to a box constraint by using the penalized reformulation of the problem. The result of the above two-step procedure provides a close-to-optimal solution to the original optimization problem. Furthermore, to ease the complexity of the optimization-based scheduling algorithm, a low-complexity heuristic scheduling scheme is proposed for the efficient multiplexing of URLLC and eMBB services. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed optimization and heuristic schemes is illustrated through extensive numerical simulations. [less ▲]

Link Adaptation and SINR errors in Practical Multicast Multibeam Satellite Systems with Linear Precoding

in International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking (2020)

Link Adaptation and SINR errors in Practical Multicast Multibeam Satellite Systems with Linear Precoding

in International Journal of Satellite Communications and Networking (2020)

Joint Power and Resource Block Allocation for Mixed-Numerology-Based 5G Downlink Under Imperfect CSI

in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (2020), 1

Fifth-generation (5G) of wireless networks are expected to accommodate different services with contrasting quality of service (QoS) requirements within a common physical infrastructure in an efficient way ... [more ▼]

Fifth-generation (5G) of wireless networks are expected to accommodate different services with contrasting quality of service (QoS) requirements within a common physical infrastructure in an efficient way. In this article, we address the radio access network (RAN) slicing problem and focus on the three 5G primary services, namely, enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra-reliable and lowlatency communications (URLLC) and massive machine-type communications (mMTC). In particular, we formulate the joint allocation of power and resource blocks to the heterogeneous users in the downlink targeting the transmit power minimization and by considering mixed numerology-based frame structures. Most importantly, the proposed scheme does not only consider the heterogeneous QoS requirements of each service, but also the queue status of each user during the scheduling of resource blocks. In addition, imperfect Channel State Information (CSI) is considered by including an outage probabilistic constraint into the formulation. The resulting non-convex problem is converted to a more tractable problem by exploiting Big-M formulation, probabilistic to non-probabilistic transformation, binary relaxation and successive convex approximation (SCA). The proposed solution is evaluated for different mixed-numerology resource grids within the context of strict slice-isolation and slice-aware radio resource management schemes via extensive numerical simulations. [less ▲]

Multigroup Multicast Precoding for Energy Optimization in SWIPT Systems with Heterogeneous Users

in IEEE Communications Society Magazine (2019)

The key to developing future generations of wireless communication systems lies in the expansion of extant methodologies, which ensures the coexistence of a variety of devices within a system. In this ... [more ▼]

The key to developing future generations of wireless communication systems lies in the expansion of extant methodologies, which ensures the coexistence of a variety of devices within a system. In this paper, we assume several multicasting (MC) groups comprising three types of heterogeneous users including Information Decoding (ID), Energy Harvesting (EH) and both ID and EH. We present a novel framework to investigate the multi-group (MG) - MC precoder designs for three different scenarios, namely, Separate Multicast and Energy Precoding Design (SMEP), Joint Multicast and Energy Precoding Design (JMEP), and Per-User Information and/or Energy Precoding Design (PIEP). In the considered system, a multi-antenna source transmits the relevant information and/or energy to the groups of corresponding receivers using more than one MC streams. The data processing users employ the conventional ID receiver architectures, the EH users make use of a non-linear EH module for energy acquisition, while the users capable of performing both ID and EH utilize the separated architecture with disparate ID and non-linear EH units. Our contribution is threefold. Firstly, we propose an optimization framework to i) minimize the total transmit power and ii) to maximize the sum harvested energy, the two key performance metrics of MG-MC systems. The proposed framework allows the analysis of the system under arbitrary given quality of service and harvested energy requirements. Secondly, to deal with the non-convexity of the formulated problems, we transform the original problems respectively into equivalent forms, which can be effectively solved by semi-definite relaxation (SDR) and alternating optimization. The convergence of the proposed algorithms is analytically guaranteed. Thirdly, a comparative study between the proposed schemes is conducted via extensive numerical results, wherein the benefits of adopting SMEP over JMEP and PIEP models are discussed [less ▲]

On Fairness Optimization for NOMA-Enabled Multi-Beam Satellite Systems

in IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications 2019 (2019, September)

Relay Selection and Resource Allocation for SWIPT in Multi-User OFDMA Systems

in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2019)

We investigate the resource allocation and relay selection in a two-hop relay-assisted multi-user Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) network, where the end-nodes support Simultaneous ... [more ▼]

We investigate the resource allocation and relay selection in a two-hop relay-assisted multi-user Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) network, where the end-nodes support Simultaneous Wireless Information and Power Transfer (SWIPT) employing a Power Splitting (PS) technique. Our goal is to optimize the end-nodes’ power splitting ratios as well as the relay, carrier and power assignment so that the sum-rate of the system is maximized subject to harvested energy and transmitted power constraints. Such joint optimization with mixed integer non-linear programming structure is combinatorial in nature. Due to the complexity of this problem, we propose to solve its dual problem which guarantees asymptotic optimality and less execution time compared to a highly-complex exhaustive search approach. Furthermore, we also present a heuristic method to solve this problem with lower computational complexity. Simulation results reveal that the proposed algorithms provide significant performance gains compared to a semi-random resource allocation and relay selection approach and close to the optimal solution when the number of OFDMA sub-carriers is sufficiently large. [less ▲]