Energy-Efficient Optimization in Distributed Massive MIMO Systems for Slicing eMBB and URLLC Services

Abstract

The fifth generation (5G) communication system aims to support diverse services such as enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC). In order to enable the coexistence of eMBB and URLLC services on a common physical infrastructure, network slicing incorporated in the distributed massive multiple-input multiple-output (DM-MIMO) system is regarded as a promising solution. In this paper, a non-orthogonal slicing scheme is proposed to improve the spectral efficiency, and the short packet transmission is adopted for URLLC to meet the low latency requirement. Through a joint optimization of beamforming and remote radio unit (RRU) selection, we investigate the energy efficiency (EE) maximization problem for the downlink DM-MIMO system. The formulated problem is a mixed integer nonlinear program (MINLP) that we solve by applying some efficient approaches, such as the Dinkelbach method, the reweighted <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\ell _{1}$</tex-math></inline-formula> -norm and difference of convex (DC) programming. By combining these approaches in one iteration, a double-loop procedure based on semi-definite relaxation (SDR) and successive convex approximation (SCA) is employed to find the suboptimal solution of the problem. Simulation results show that the proposed scheme significantly improves the EE of the DM-MIMO system and efficiently manages resource allocation.