Virtualization of 5G Cellular Networks as a Hierarchical Combinatorial Auction

Zhu, Kun; Hossain, Ekram

doi:10.1109/tmc.2015.2506578

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“…There are three different types of business models for network slicing which are B2B, B2C, and B2B2C [6]. In addition, several solutions for efficiently supporting network resource virtualization [7] and resource allocation by using auction approaches [8] have been proposed. They have been designed to improve the quality of experience (QoE) of mobile users and network utilization.…”

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Network slicing in 5G: An auction-based model

Jiang¹,

Condoluci²,

Mahmoodi³

2017

2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

135

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Abstract-The 5G mobile network is expected to meet the diverse demands from multiple types of business services. At the same time, some of the 5G use cases come with hard, and often expensive to meet, requirements in terms of latency and bandwidth. It is a common understanding that one system can not fit all and there is a need for customizing network according to the requirements of specific business use cases. Network slicing is introduced to partition the physical network to different slices to be configured for providing different quality of service as requested by the slice' operator and required by the slice' users. Since these slices will be used by the businesses, e.g. verticals, allocating physical resources to the network slices, is not anymore only a matter of performance but also a matter of revenue and business model. In this paper, we address a joint resource and revenue optimization a novel auction based model. Through extensive simulation study, we demonstrate our proposed auction model can allocate network resources to network slices for providing (i) higher satisfaction of requirements per network slice, and (ii) increased network revenue.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Network slicing in 5G: An auction-based model

Jiang¹,

Condoluci²,

Mahmoodi³

2017

2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)

135

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“…We introduce the Vickery-Clarke-Groves (VCG) mechanism, which restricts that bidders must follow the truthful valuation for bidding [9]. After obtaining the current iteration shadow prices λ λ λ (t) , µ µ µ (t) , ν ν ν (t) and assigned weights ω i , σ j of both UEs and BSs, MVNOs and InPs calculating their bidding strategies x m , y n separately according to their true valuation of bidding utility: (4) and (6).…”

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“…After obtaining the current iteration shadow prices λ λ λ (t) , µ µ µ (t) , ν ν ν (t) and assigned weights ω i , σ j of both UEs and BSs, MVNOs and InPs calculating their bidding strategies x m , y n separately according to their true valuation of bidding utility: (4) and (6). As the optimal solution is satisfied by solving KKT conditions of primal problem, we solve the utility of both each MVNO m and InP n by (B1) and (B2), which are calculated by the pre-negotiated price p mn between m and n and iteration shadow price λ λ λ (t) , µ µ µ (t) , ν ν ν (t) produced by constraints (8) and (9). We can see the details in Algorithm 1 and Algorithm 2.…”

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“…The cooperative game based spectrum sharing is analysed in [7] and a virtual resource allocation mechanism by using market equilibrium theory is proposed by [8]. The auction mechanisms for dynamic wireless resources (e.g., spectrum, transmission time) have been investigated in [9] and [10]. However, the authors above have only considered merely one Infrastructures Provider (InP) in the scenario, which lacks of flexibility for service selection.…”

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A double auction mechanism for virtual resource allocation in SDN-based cellular network

Zhang

Chang

et al. 2016

2016 IEEE 27th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)

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Abstract-The explosively growing demands for mobile traffic service bring both challenges and opportunities to wireless networks, among which, wireless network virtualization is proposed as the main evolution towards 5G. In this paper, we first propose a Software Defined Network (SDN) based wireless virtualization architecture for enabling multi-flow transmission in order to save capital expenses (CapEx) and operation expenses (OpEx) significantly with multiple Infrastructures Providers (InPs) and multiple Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs). We formulate the virtual resource allocation problem with diverse QoS requirements as a social welfare maximization problem with transaction cost. Due to the high computational complexity of formulated problem and hidden information of InPs and MVNOs for SDN controller, we introduce the shadow price for ensuring the desirable economic properties as well as the total welfare of system. Simulations are conducted with different system configurations to show the effectiveness of the proposed SDN based wireless virtualization framework and double auction mechanism.

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“…A resource allocation in virtualized small cell networks with full duplex self-backhauls is formulated in [18] as a mixed combinatorial optimization problem to maximize the total utility of all mobile virtual network operators. Zhu and Hossain [19] design a hierarchical combinatorial auction mechanism for the resource allocation problem in wireless virtualization. A resource allocation problem for virtualized full-duplex relaying networks is formulated in [20] to maximize the total utility.…”

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Parallel and Distributed Resource Allocation With Minimum Traffic Disruption for Network Virtualization

Nguyen

Zhang

Chang

et al. 2017

IEEE Trans. Commun.

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Abstract-Wireless network virtualization has been advocated as one of the most promising technologies to provide multifarious services and applications for the future Internet by enabling multiple isolated virtual wireless networks to coexist and share the same physical wireless resources. Based on the multiple concurrent virtual wireless networks running on the shared physical substrate, service providers can independently manage and deploy different end-users services. This paper proposes a new formulation for bandwidth allocation and routing problem for multiple virtual wireless networks that operate on top of a single substrate network to minimize the operation cost of the substrate network. We also propose a preventive traffic disruption model for virtual wireless networks to minimize the amount of traffic that service providers have to reduce when substrate links fail by incorporating 1 -norm into the objective function. Due to the large number of constraints in both normal state and link failure states, the formulated problem becomes a largescale optimization problem and is very challenging to solve using the centralized computational method. Therefore, we propose the decomposition algorithms using the alternating direction method of multipliers that can be implemented in a parallel and distributed fashion. The simulation results demonstrate the computational efficiency of our proposed algorithms as well as the advantage of the formulated model in ensuring the minimal amount of traffic disruption when substrate links fail.

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Virtualization of 5G Cellular Networks as a Hierarchical Combinatorial Auction

Cited by 170 publications

References 36 publications

Network slicing in 5G: An auction-based model

Network slicing in 5G: An auction-based model

A double auction mechanism for virtual resource allocation in SDN-based cellular network

Parallel and Distributed Resource Allocation With Minimum Traffic Disruption for Network Virtualization

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