Joint Optimization of Base Station Sleeping, Functional Split, and Routing Selection in Virtualized Radio Access Networks

This paper investigates the Joint Optimization of Base station sleeping, Functional split, and Routing selection (JOBFR) in virtualized radio access network (vRAN) architectures to minimize the operator’s total cost, including operating cost and migration cost while satisfying user requirements. Specifically, we first use mathematical methods to describe the relationships between the base station (BS) sleeping, functional split (FS) and routing selection, and then model the goal as a joint optimization problem. Next, we propose a heuristic algorithm called Flexible Sleeping, Functional split, and Routing selection (FSFR) to decide BS sleeping, and FS option, and routing selection, simultaneously. Finally, we perform extensive simulations to evaluate our algorithm. The results demonstrate that our algorithm can significantly save the total cost of operators compared to the baseline approach and can also achieve near-optimal performance.