Intelligible Protocol Learning for Resource Allocation in 6G O-RAN Slicing

F Rezazadeh, H Chergui, S Siddiqui… - IEEE Wireless …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An adaptive standardized protocol is essential for addressing inter-slice resource contention
and conflict in network slicing. Traditional protocol standardization is a cumbersome task …

Explanation-Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning for Trustworthy 6G RAN Slicing

F Rezazadeh, H Chergui… - 2023 IEEE …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The complexity of emerging sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks has sparked an
upsurge in adopting artificial intelligence (AI) to underpin the challenges in network …

Communication and computation O-RAN resource slicing for URLLC services using deep reinforcement learning

A Filali, B Nour, S Cherkaoui… - IEEE Communications …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The evolution of the future beyond-5G/6G networks toward a service-aware network is
based on network slicing technology. With network slicing, communication service providers …

SliceOps: Explainable MLOps for Streamlined Automation-Native 6G Networks

F Rezazadeh, H Chergui, L Alonso… - IEEE Wireless …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sixth-generation (6G) network slicing is the backbone of future communications systems. It
inaugurates the era of extreme ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (xURLLC), and …

Edge-AI Empowered Dynamic VNF Splitting in O-RAN Slicing: A Federated DRL Approach

E Amiri, N Wang, M Shojafar… - IEEE Communications …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This letter highlights the combined advantages of Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) and
distributed Artificial Intelligence (AI) in network slicing. O-RAN's virtualization and …

Towards Scalable and Efficient Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning for 5G RAN Slicing

R Huang, M Guo, C Gu, S He, J Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As an emerging and promising network paradigm, network slicing creates multiple logical
networks on shared infrastructure to provide services with customized Quality-of-Service …

Flexible RAN Slicing in Open RAN With Constrained Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

M Zangooei, M Golkarifard, M Rouili… - IEEE Journal on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network slicing enables the provision of customized services in next-generation mobile
networks. Accordingly, the network is divided into logically isolated networks that share …

Knowledge transfer based radio and computation resource allocation for 5G RAN slicing

H Zhou, M Erol-Kantarci - 2022 IEEE 19th Annual Consumer …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To implement network slicing in 5G, resource allocation is a key function to allocate limited
network resources such as radio and computation resources to multiple slices. However, the …

GAN-powered deep distributional reinforcement learning for resource management in network slicing

Y Hua, R Li, Z Zhao, X Chen… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Network slicing is a key technology in 5G communications system. Its purpose is to
dynamically and efficiently allocate resources for diversified services with distinct …

HexRAN: A programmable multi-RAT platform for network slicing in the open RAN ecosystem

A Kak, VQ Pham, HT Thieu, N Choi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.12560, 2023 - arxiv.org
In recent years, the Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture has emerged as a
major driving force for programmability in cellular networks and is recognized as a key …