IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
Special Section on Network Virtualization and Network Softwarization for Diverse 5G Services
RAN Slicing to Realize Resource Isolation Utilizing Ordinary Radio Resource Management for Network Slicing
Daisuke NOJIMAYuki KATSUMATAYoshifumi MORIHIROTakahiro ASAIAkira YAMADAShigeru IWASHINA
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2019 Volume E102.B Issue 3 Pages 484-495

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In the context of resource isolation for network slicing, this paper introduces two resource allocation methods especially for the radio access network (RAN) part. Both methods can be implemented by slight modification of the ordinary packet scheduling algorithm such as the proportional fairness algorithm, and guarantee resource isolation by limiting the maximum number of resource blocks (RBs) allocated to each slice. Moreover, since both methods flexibly allocate RBs to the entire system bandwidth, there are cases in which the throughput performance is improved compared to when the system bandwidth is divided in a static manner, especially in a frequency selective channel environment. Numerical results show the superiority of these methods to dividing simply the system bandwidth in a static manner, and show the difference between the features of the methods in terms of the throughput performance of each slice.

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