5MART: A 5G SMART scheduling framework for optimizing QoS through reinforcement learning
Comsa, Ioan-Sorin 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9121-0286, Trestian, Ramona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3315-3081, Muntean, Gabriel-Miro and Ghinea, Gheorghita ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2578-5580
(2020)
5MART: A 5G SMART scheduling framework for optimizing QoS through reinforcement learning.
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 17
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pp. 1110-1124.
ISSN 1932-4537
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(doi:10.1109/TNSM.2019.2960849)
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Abstract
The massive growth in mobile data traffic and the heterogeneity and stringency of Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of various applications have put significant pressure on the underlying network infrastructure and represent an important challenge even for the very anticipated 5G networks. In this context, the solution is to employ smart Radio Resource Management (RRM) in general and innovative packet scheduling in particular in order to offer high flexibility and cope with both current and upcoming QoS challenges. Given the increasing demand for bandwidth-hungry applications, conventional scheduling strategies face significant problems in meeting the heterogeneous QoS requirements of various application classes under dynamic network conditions. This paper proposes 5MART, a 5G smart scheduling framework that manages the QoS provisioning for heterogeneous traffic. Reinforcement learning and neural networks are jointly used to find the most suitable scheduling decisions based on current networking conditions. Simulation results show that the proposed 5MART framework can achieve up to 50% improvement in terms of time fraction (in sub-frames) when the heterogeneous QoS constraints are met with respect to other state-of-the-art scheduling solutions.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords (uncontrolled): | 5G, radio resource management, machine learning, scheduling, traffic prioritization, QoS optimization |
| Research Areas: | A. > School of Science and Technology > Design Engineering and Mathematics |
| Item ID: | 29440 |
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| Depositing User: | Ramona Trestian |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Mar 2020 13:07 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Nov 2022 18:24 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/29440 |
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