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Main Authors: Wang, Junyuan, Wu, Tianyao, Zhou, Ouyang, Zhu, Yaping
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02282
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author Wang, Junyuan
Wu, Tianyao
Zhou, Ouyang
Zhu, Yaping
author_facet Wang, Junyuan
Wu, Tianyao
Zhou, Ouyang
Zhu, Yaping
contents Clustered cell-free networking, which dynamically partitions the whole network into nonoverlapping subnetworks, has been recently proposed to mitigate the cell-edge problem in cellular networks. However, prior works only focused on optimizing clustered cell-free networking in static scenarios with fixed users. This could lead to a large number of handovers in the practical dynamic environment with moving users, seriously hindering the implementation of clustered cell-free networking in practice. This paper considers user mobility and aims to simultaneously maximize the sum rate and minimize the number of handovers. By transforming the multi-objective optimization problem into a time-varying graph partitioning problem and exploring evolutionary spectral clustering, a temporal-smoothed clustered cell-free networking algorithm is proposed, which is shown to be effective in smoothing network partitions over time and reducing handovers while maintaining similar sum rate.
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spellingShingle Exploring Evolutionary Spectral Clustering for Temporal-Smoothed Clustered Cell-Free Networking
Wang, Junyuan
Wu, Tianyao
Zhou, Ouyang
Zhu, Yaping
Networking and Internet Architecture
Information Theory
Signal Processing
Clustered cell-free networking, which dynamically partitions the whole network into nonoverlapping subnetworks, has been recently proposed to mitigate the cell-edge problem in cellular networks. However, prior works only focused on optimizing clustered cell-free networking in static scenarios with fixed users. This could lead to a large number of handovers in the practical dynamic environment with moving users, seriously hindering the implementation of clustered cell-free networking in practice. This paper considers user mobility and aims to simultaneously maximize the sum rate and minimize the number of handovers. By transforming the multi-objective optimization problem into a time-varying graph partitioning problem and exploring evolutionary spectral clustering, a temporal-smoothed clustered cell-free networking algorithm is proposed, which is shown to be effective in smoothing network partitions over time and reducing handovers while maintaining similar sum rate.
title Exploring Evolutionary Spectral Clustering for Temporal-Smoothed Clustered Cell-Free Networking
topic Networking and Internet Architecture
Information Theory
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02282