Bandit Approach for Fair and Efficient Coexistence of NR-U in Unlicensed Bands
2023 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, ISSN 0018-9545, E-ISSN 1939-9359, Vol. 72, no 4, p. 5208-5223Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
New radio in unlicensed spectrum (NR-U) is an evolutionary extension of the existing unlicensed spectrum technologies, which allows New radio (NR) to operate in the shared and unlicensed frequency bands. However, in such bands, NR-U should coexist with other radio access technologies (RATs) in a commonly shared spectrum. As various RATs possess dissimilar physical and link-layer configurations, NR-U should comply with the requirements for harmonious coexistence with them. For this reason, the majority of the existing studies on NR-U are focused on fair coexistence. In contrast, the efforts on attaining efficiency of the spectrum and fairness concurrently have gained comparatively few interests as they exhibit an adverse feature. Motivated by this limitation, we propose an algorithm called Thompson's sampling-based online gradient ascent (TS-OGA), which jointly considers the fairness between NR-U and incumbents and, at the same time, the efficiency via pertinent idle period adjustment of the incumbents in the operating channel. Because NR-U deals with the two conflicting and competing objectives (i.e., fairness and efficiency), we model it as a multi-objective multi-armed bandit problem using the Generalized Gini Index aggregation function (GGAF). In the proposed scheme, TS-OGA, a Thompson's sampling (TS) policy is employed together with the online gradient ascent to address the multi-objective optimization problem. Through simulation results, we show that TS-OGA can significantly enhance overall channel throughput, while maintaining fairness. Further, TS-OGA provides the best performance compared to three different baseline algorithms such as greedy, upper confidence bound, and pure TS.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2023. Vol. 72, no 4, p. 5208-5223
Keywords [en]
coexistence, efficiency, fairness, multi-objective multi-armed bandit, NR-U, Multiobjective optimization, Rats, Multi objective, Multiarmed bandits (MABs), New radio in unlicensed spectrum, Radio access technologies, Spectra's, Thompson, Unlicensed spectrum
National Category
Computer and Information Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-65260DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2022.3226291Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85144038451OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-65260DiVA, id: diva2:1768581
Note
Funding details: Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, MSIP; Funding details: National Research Foundation of Korea, NRF, - 2022R1A4A3033401, NRF-2022R1F1A1065367; Funding text 1: This work was supported in part by the Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT), Korea, in part by the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) under Grants NRF-2022R1F1A1065367 and NRF- 2022R1A4A3033401.
2023-06-152023-06-152023-12-27Bibliographically approved