Delay-aware and power-efficient resource allocation in virtualized wireless networks

This paper proposes a delay-aware resource provisioning policy for virtualized wireless networks (VWNs) to minimize the total average transmit power while holding the minimum required average rate of each slice and maximum average packet transmission delay for each user. The proposed cross-layer optimization problem is inherently non-convex and has high computational complexity. To develop an efficient solution, we first transform cross-layer dependent constraints into physical layer dependent ones. Afterwards, we apply different convexification techniques based on variable transformations and relaxations, and propose an iterative algorithm to reach the optimal solution. Simulation results illustrate the effects of the required average packet transmission delay and minimum average slice rate on the total transmission power in VWN.

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