Lightweight Cloud-Edge Collaborations for Intelligent Power Control in Energy-Efficient Heterogeneous Networks
2023 (English)In: GLOBECOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2023, p. 7007-7012Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
This paper studies the global energy efficiency (GEE) optimization problem in a typical heterogeneous network (HetNet), where a macro base station (BS) and multiple micro BSs share the same spectrum band. Conventional optimization methods typically involve collecting global instantaneous channel state information (CSI) and utilizing centralized optimization algorithms to obtain the optimal transmit power and enhance the GEE. However, it is expensive to obtain the global instantaneous CSI in practical scenarios, and the optimization algorithms tend to be time-consuming. In this paper, we develop a lightweight cloud-edge collaboration framework based on the deep reinforcement learning (DRL) technique, such that the BSs in the edge do not need to exchange local instantaneous information with each other, and the core network in the cloud can collect only historical data rates and energy consumption information from each edge BS and feeds the calculated global reward back to them. Within the frame-work, we establish an independent actor-critic structure for each BS, and design a multi-agent independent actor-critic (MAIAC) power control algorithm, which enables each BS to determine its transmit power locally and enhance the GEE based on only local information. Simulation results indicate that the proposed MAIAC algorithm can achieve comparable GEE performance with conventional algorithms while requiring significantly less time complexity.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2023. p. 7007-7012
Keywords [en]
deep reinforcement learning, energy efficiency, HetN et, Index 1erms-Cloud-edge collaboration, power control
National Category
Communication Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-344555DOI: 10.1109/GLOBECOM54140.2023.10437240ISI: 001178562007096Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85187358897OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-344555DiVA, id: diva2:1845943
Conference
2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec 4 2023 - Dec 8 2023
Note
Part of proceedings ISBN: 979-8-3503-1090-0
QC 20240325
2024-03-202024-03-202024-04-15Bibliographically approved