Joint Beamforming and Clustering for Energy Efficient Multi-Cloud Radio Access Networks
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Abstract
The tremendous growth of data traffic in mobile communication networks (MCNs) and the associated exponential increase in mobile devices’ numbers necessitate the use of multi-cloud radio access networks (MC-RANs) as a viable solution to cope with the requirements of next-generation MCNs (6G). In MC-RANs, each central processor (CP) manages the signal processing of its own set of base stations (BSs), and so the system performance becomes a function of the joint intra-cloud and inter-cloud interference mitigation techniques. To this end, this paper considers the problem of maximizing the network-wide energy efficiency (EE) subject to user-to-cloud association, fronthaul capacity, maximum transmit power, and achievable rate constraints, so as to determine the joint beamforming vector of each user and the user-to-cloud association strategy. The paper tackles the non-convex and mixed discrete-continuous nature of the problem formulation using fractional programming (FP) and inner-convex approximation (ICA) techniques, as well as l<inf>0</inf>-norm relaxation heuristics, and shows how the proposed approach can be implemented in a distributed fashion via a reasonable amount of information exchange across the CPs. The paper simulations highlight the appreciable algorithmic efficiency of the proposed approach over state-of-the-art schemes.
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