A Recurrent Neural Network Based Approach for Coordinating Radio and Computing Resources Allocation in Cloud-RAN

Cloud Radio Access Network (Cloud-RAN) is a novel architecture that aims at centralizing the baseband processing of base stations. This architecture opens paths for joint, flexible, and optimal management of radio and computing resources. To increase the benefit from this architecture, efficient resource management algorithms need to be devised. In this paper, we consider a coordinated allocation of radio and computing resources to mobile users. Optimal resource allocation that respects the Hybrid-Automatic-Repeat-Request deadline may require formulating high-complexity and resource-heavy algorithms. We consider two Integer Linear Programming problems (ILP) that implement a coordinated allocation of radio and computing resources with the objectives of maximizing throughput and maximizing users’ satisfaction, respectively. Since solving these highly-complex problems requires a high execution time, we investigate low-complexity alternatives based on machine learning models; more precisely on Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN). These RNN models aim to depict the performance of the ILP problems with a much lower execution time. Our simulation results demonstrate the great ability of RNN models to perform very closely to the ILP problems while being able to reduce the execution time by up to 99.65%.