Deep Learning Based Hotspot Prediction and Beam Management for Adaptive Virtual Small Cell in 5G Networks
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Abstract
To meet the extremely stringent but diverse requirements of 5G, cost-effective network deployment and traffic-aware adaptive utilization of network resources are becoming essential. In this paper, a hotspot prediction based virtual small cell (VSC) operation scheme is adopted to improve both the cost efficiency and operational efficiency of 5G networks. This paper focuses on how to predict the hotspots by using deep learning, and then demonstrates how the predictions can be leveraged to support adaptive beamforming and VSC operation. We first leverage the feature extraction capabilities of deep learning and exploit use of a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network to achieve hotspot prediction for the potential formation of the VSCs. To support the operation of VSCs, large-scale antenna array enabled hybrid beamforming is adaptively adjusted for highly directional transmission to cover these hotspot-based VSCs. Within each VSC, an appropriate user equipment is selected as a cell head to collect the intra-cell traffic in the unlicensed band and relays the aggregated traffic to the macro-cell base station by using the licensed band. Our simulation results illustrate that the proposed LSTM-based method can extract spatial and temporal traffic features of hotspot with higher accuracy, compared with some existing deep and non-deep learning approaches. Numerical results also show that VSCs with hotspot prediction and hybrid beamforming can improve the energy efficiency dramatically with flexible deployment and low latency, compared with the scenario of the convolutional fixed small cells.
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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