Title
Optimizing Flying Base Station Connectivity by RAN Slicing and Reinforcement Learning
Date Issued
2022
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Melgarejo D.C.
Pokorny J.
Seda P.
Narayanan A.
Nardelli P.H.J.
Rasti M.
Hosek J.
Seda M.
Koucheryavy Y.
Fraidenraich G.
Federal University Of Lavras
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
The application of flying base stations (FBS) in wireless communication is becoming a key enabler to improve cellular wireless connectivity. Following this tendency, this research work aims to enhance the spectral efficiency of FBSs using the radio access network (RAN) slicing framework; this optimization considers that FBSs' location was already defined previously. This framework splits the physical radio resources into three RAN slices. These RAN slices schedule resources by optimizing individual slice spectral efficiency by using a deep reinforcement learning approach. The simulation indicates that the proposed framework generally outperforms the spectral efficiency of the network that only considers the heuristic predefined FBS location, although the gains are not always significant in some specific cases. Finally, spectral efficiency is analyzed for each RAN slice resource and evaluated in terms of service-level agreement (SLA) to indicate the performance of the framework.
Start page
53746
End page
53760
Volume
10
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Telecomunicaciones Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85130423725
Source
IEEE Access
ISSN of the container
21693536
Sources of information: Directorio de Producción Científica Scopus