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Min Flow Rate Maximization for Software Defined Radio Access Networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (2014)
  • Wei-Cheng Liao, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
  • Mingyi Hong, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
  • Hamid Farmanbar
  • Xu Li
  • Zhi-Quan Luo, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
  • Hang Zhang
Abstract
We consider a cloud-based heterogeneous network of base stations (BSs) connected via a backhaul network of routers and wired/wireless links with limited capacity. The optimal provision of such networks requires proper resource allocation across the radio access links in conjunction with appropriate traffic engineering within the backhaul network. In this paper, we propose an efficient algorithm for joint resource allocation across the wireless links and flow control over the entire network. The proposed algorithm, which maximizes the min-rate among all the transmitted commodities, is based on a decomposition approach that leverages both the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) and the weighted-MMSE (WMMSE) algorithm. We show that this algorithm is easily parallelizable and converges globally to a stationary solution of the joint optimization problem. The proposed algorithm can also be extended to networks with multi-antenna nodes and other utility functions.
Keywords
  • heterogeneous networks,
  • ADMM algorithm,
  • software defined networking,
  • cross-layer optimization,
  • small cell,
  • limited backhaul
Publication Date
June, 2014
Publisher Statement
This is a manuscript of an article from IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication 32 (2014): 1282, doi: 10.1109/JSAC.2014.2328171. Posted with permission.
Citation Information
Wei-Cheng Liao, Mingyi Hong, Hamid Farmanbar, Xu Li, et al.. "Min Flow Rate Maximization for Software Defined Radio Access Networks" IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Vol. 32 Iss. 6 (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/mingyi_hong/4/