Unsupervised learning for C-RAN power control and power allocation

This letter applies a feedforward neural network trained in an unsupervised fashion to the problem of optimizing the transmit powers in centralized radio access networks operating on a cell-free basis. Both uplink and downlink are considered. Various objectives are entertained, some leading to conve...

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Autores: Nikbakht Silab, Rasoul, Jonsson, Anders, 1973-, Lozano Solsona, Angel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:10230/47547
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/47547
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2020.3027991
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Neural networks
Unsupervised learning
Cell-free networks
Ultradense networks
Power control
Power allocation
C-RAN
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Sumario:This letter applies a feedforward neural network trained in an unsupervised fashion to the problem of optimizing the transmit powers in centralized radio access networks operating on a cell-free basis. Both uplink and downlink are considered. Various objectives are entertained, some leading to convex formulations and some that do not. In all cases, the performance of the proposed procedure is very satisfactory and, in terms of computational cost, the scalability is manifestly superior to that of convex solvers. Moreover, the optimization relies on directly measurable channel gains, with no need for user location information.