A Novel Approach for Dynamic Capacity Sharing in Multi-tenant Scenarios
Irene Vilà, J. Pérez-Romero, O. Sallent, Anna Umbert · 2020
Network slicing is included as a key feature of the 5G architecture in order to simultaneously support diverse service types with heterogeneous requirements. The deployment of network slicing in the Radio Access Network (RAN) needs mechanisms that allow the distribution of the available capacity in the system in an efficient manner while satisfying the requirements of the different services. In this paper, a capacity sharing function is proposed, which is approached as a multi-agent reinforcement learning based on the Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) algorithm Deep Q-Network (DQN). The proposed algorithm provides the capacity to be assigned to each RAN slice. Performance assessment reveals the promising behaviour of the proposed solution.