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Energy-Efficient and Accelerated Resource Allocation in O-RAN Slicing Using Deep Reinforcement Learning and Transfer Learning Cover

Energy-Efficient and Accelerated Resource Allocation in O-RAN Slicing Using Deep Reinforcement Learning and Transfer Learning

Open Access
|Sep 2024

Abstract

Next Generation Wireless Networks (NGWNs) have two main components: Network Slicing and Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN). NS is needed to handle various Quality of Services (QoS). O-RAN adopts an open environment for network vendors and Mobile Network Operators (MNOs). In recent years, Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) approaches have been proposed to solve some key issues in NGWNs. The primary obstacles preventing the DRL deployment are being slowly converged and unstable. Additionally, these algorithms have enormous carbon emissions that negatively impact climate change. This paper tackles the dynamic allocation problem of O-RAN radio resources for better QoS, faster convergence, stability, lower energy and power consumption, and reduced carbon emissions. Firstly, we develop an agent with a newly designed latency-based reward function and a top-k filtration mechanism for actions. Then, we propose a policy Transfer Learning approach to accelerate agent convergence. We compared our model to another two models.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2024-0029 | Journal eISSN: 1314-4081 | Journal ISSN: 1311-9702
Language: English
Page range: 132 - 150
Submitted on: Jul 20, 2024
Accepted on: Aug 29, 2024
Published on: Sep 19, 2024
Published by: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2024 Heba Sherif, Eman Ahmed, Amira M. Kotb, published by Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies
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