Dynamic Network Slicing for Multitenant Heterogeneous Cloud Radio Access Networks

Multitenant cellular network slicing has been gaining huge interest recently. However, it is not well-explored under the heterogeneous cloud radio access network (H-CRAN) architecture. This paper proposes a dynamic network slicing scheme for multitenant H-CRANs, which takes into account tenants’ priority, baseband resources, fronthaul and backhaul capacities, quality of service (QoS), and interference. The framework of the network slicing scheme consists of an upper-level, which manages admission control, user association, and baseband resource allocation; and a lower-level, which performs radio resource allocation among users. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme can achieve a higher network throughput, fairness, and QoS performance compared with several baseline schemes.