Traffic Steering for eMBB and uRLLC Coexistence in Open Radio Access Networks

[en] Existing radio access network (RAN) architectures are lack of sufficient openness, flexibility, and intelligence to meet the diverse demands of emerging services in beyond 5G and 6G wireless networks, including enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and ultra-reliable and low-latency (uRLLC). Open RAN (ORAN) is a promising paradigm that allows building a virtualized and intelligent architecture. In this paper, we focus on traffic steering (TS) scheme based on multi-connectivity (MC) and network slicing (NS) techniques to efficiently allocate heterogeneous network resources in “NextG” cellular networks. We formulate the RAN resource allocation problem to simultaneously maximize the weighted sum eMBB throughput and minimize the worst-user uRLLC latency subject to QoS requirements, and orthogonality, power, and limited fronthaul constraints. Since the formulated problem is categorized as a mixed integer …

Disciplines :

Electrical & electronics engineering

Author, co-author :

Kavehmadavani, Fatemeh ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SigCom

Vu, Thang Xuan ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SigCom

Chatzinotas, Symeon ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SigCom

Nguyen, Van Dinh; VinUniversity

External co-authors :

yes

Language :

English

Title :

Traffic Steering for eMBB and uRLLC Coexistence in Open Radio Access Networks

Publication date :

16 May 2022

Event name :

IEEE ICC conference 2022

Event date :

from 16-05-2022 to 20-05-2022

Audience :

International

Main work title :

Traffic Steering for eMBB and uRLLC Coexistence in Open Radio Access Networks

Publisher :

IEEE

Pages :

242-247

Peer reviewed :

Peer reviewed

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