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Resource Orchestration in Interference-Limited Small Cell Networks: A Contract-Theoretic Approach

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Recently, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) small cell networks (SCNs) have been studied to meet the stringent requirements for spectral efficiency and massive connectivity in the emerging 5G networks. This paper aims at addressing the overall resource orchestration issue in 5G SCNs, by considering the problem of joint user to small cell association and uplink power allocation, employing NOMA technology. In particular, the power allocation is performed under an incomplete information scenario, where the users’ channel conditions are unknown to the small cell. To treat this issue in an effective manner, contract theory is adopted in order to incentivize each user to select the power level that optimizes its own utility, while each small-cell base station (SBS) rewards them inversely proportionally to their respective sensed interference. The proposed framework is complemented by a distributed user-cell association mechanism based on reinforcement learning (RL). Indicative numerical results are provided to validate the operation and effectiveness of the proposed contract-theoretic approach.

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Acknowledgments

The research work was supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the “First Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Faculty members and Researchers and the procurement of high-cost research equipment grant” (Project Number: HFRI-FM17-2436). The research of Dr. Tsiropoulou was conducted as part of the NSF CRII-1849739.

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  1. School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780, Athens, Greece

    Maria Diamanti & Symeon Papavassiliou

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, NM 87131, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Georgios Fragkos & Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou

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Diamanti, M., Fragkos, G., Tsiropoulou, E.E., Papavassiliou, S. (2021). Resource Orchestration in Interference-Limited Small Cell Networks: A Contract-Theoretic Approach. In: Lasaulce, S., Mertikopoulos, P., Orda, A. (eds) Network Games, Control and Optimization. NETGCOOP 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1354. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87473-5_10

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