AI-Assisted Network-Slicing Based Next-Generation Wireless Networks

Authors

Xuemin Shen, University of WaterlooFollow
Jie Gao, Marquette UniversityFollow
Wen Wu, University of Waterloo
Kangjia Lyu, University of Waterloo
Mushu Li, University of WaterlooFollow
Weihua Zhuang, University of WaterlooFollow
Xu Li, Huawei Technologies, Canada
Jaya Rao, Huawei Technologies, Canada

Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Publication Date

1-9-2020

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Source Publication

IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology

Source ISSN

2644-1330

Abstract

The integration of communications with different scales, diverse radio access technologies, and various network resources renders next-generation wireless networks (NGWNs) highly heterogeneous and dynamic. Emerging use cases and applications, such as machine to machine communications, autonomous driving, and factory automation, have stringent requirements in terms of reliability, latency, throughput, and so on. Such requirements pose new challenges to architecture design, network management, and resource orchestration in NGWNs. Starting from illustrating these challenges, this paper aims at providing a good understanding of the overall architecture of NGWNs and three specific research problems under this architecture. First, we introduce a network-slicing based architecture and explain why and where artificial intelligence (AI) should be incorporated into this architecture. Second, the motivation, research challenges, existing works, and potential future directions related to applying AI-based approaches in three research problems are described in detail, i.e., flexible radio access network slicing, automated radio access technology selection, and mobile edge caching and content delivery. In summary, this paper highlights the benefits and potentials of AI-based approaches in the research of NGWNs.

Comments

Published version. IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, Vol. 1 (January 9, 2020): 45-66. DOI. © 2020 The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Used with permission.

Jie Gao was affiliated with University of Waterloo at the time of publication.

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Recommended Citation

Shen, Xuemin; Gao, Jie; Wu, Wen; Lyu, Kangjia; Li, Mushu; Zhuang, Weihua; Li, Xu; and Rao, Jaya, "AI-Assisted Network-Slicing Based Next-Generation Wireless Networks" (2020). Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research and Publications. 654.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/electric_fac/654