Delay-Aware Resource Management for Multi-Service Coexisting LTE-D2D Networks With Wireless Network Virtualization

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To satisfy the rapid growth of data service demands on the limited spectrum resources, wireless network virtualization (WNV) has been proposed as a promising technology in the future wireless networks. Meanwhile, Device-to-Device (D2D) communication, as an underlay to cellular networks, is also a proposed solution to promote the spectrum efficiency. However, it is a challenge to design an appropriate virtual resource slicing strategy among different wireless service providers in the two-tier LTE-D2D networks. In this paper, considering dynamic traffic arrivals and time-varying channel conditions, the virtualized resource management in the multi-service coexisting LTE-D2D networks is formulated into a multi-objective stochastic optimization problem. Leveraging on weighted Tchebycheff approach and Lyapunov optimization technique, the multi-objective stochastic optimization problem can be transformed into a delay-aware optimization problem, which is a mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problem and can be transformed into a convex one by a series of reformulation. A distributed algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is proposed to obtain a close-to-optimal solution with a lower computational complexity. Finally, the simulation results show that the proposed scheme can achieve a performance-delay tradeoff related to the control factor V with at most 0.2% performance loss compared with the optimal solution.