Joint resource provisioning and admission control in wireless virtualized networks

This paper studies joint resource provisioning and admission control in wireless virtualized networks (WVN), where one base station of an OFDMA-based wireless network is virtualized into two types of slices with resource-based and rate-based reservations. Aiming to maximize the total rate of WVN, first, the resource provisioning optimization problems are formulated by guaranteeing a minimum requirement for each slice. Via constraint relaxation and variable transformations, an iterative algorithm is developed for power and sub-carrier allocation. Due to the channel variations, WVN suffers from non-zero outage probability, i.e., slice requirements cannot always be met. To prevent this issue, we present an admission control algorithm in which slice requirements are dynamically adjusted based on channel state information. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithms.

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