Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY
Volume 65, Issue 10, Pages 7844-7856Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2016.2536441
Keywords
Cloud radio access network (C-RAN); fifth generation (5G); matrix game; resource management; software-defined network (SDN); vehicular network
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61422201, 61370159, U1201253, U1301255]
- Science and Technology Program of Guangdong Province [2015B010129001]
- Special-Support Project of Guangdong Province [2014TQ01X100]
- High Education Excellent Young Teacher Program of Guangdong Province [YQ2013057]
- Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou [2014J2200097]
- Research Council of Norway [240079/F20]
- European Commission FP7 Project CROWN [PIRSES-GA-2013-627490]
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Vehicular networks are expected to accommodate a large number of data-heavy mobile devices and multiapplication services, whereas it faces a significant challenge when we need to deal with the ever-increasing demand of mobile traffic. In this paper, we present a new paradigm of fifth-generation (5G)-enabled vehicular networks to improve network capacity and system computing capability. We extend the original cloud radio access network (C-RAN) to integrate local cloud services to provide a low-cost, scalable, self-organizing, and effective solution. The new C-RAN is named enhanced C-RAN (EC-RAN). Cloudlets in EC-RAN are geographically distributed for local services. Furthermore, device-to-device (D2D) and heterogeneous networks are essential technologies in 5G systems. They can greatly improve spectrum efficiency and support large-scale live video streaming in short-distance communications. We exploit matrix game theoretical approach to operate the cloudlet resource management and allocation. A Nash equilibrium solution can be obtained by a Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) nonlinear complementarity approach. Illustrative results indicate that the proposed resource-sharing scheme with the geodistributed cloudlets can improve resource utilization and reduce system power consumption. Moreover, with the integration of a software-defined network architecture, a vehicular network can easily reach a globally optimal solution.
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