QuaRo: A Queue-Aware Robust Coordinated Transmission Strategy for Downlink C-RANs

摘要

A queue-aware robust (QuaRo) coordinated transmission strategy is proposed for Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RANs) with a central BaseBand processing Unit (BBU) connected to multiple Remote Radio Heads (RRHs). Such QuaRo strategy is adaptive to both user-traffic urgency via Queue State Information (QSI) and wireless channel opportunity via the observed (yet imperfect) Channel State Information (CSI). This involves clustering the RRHs into virtual user-centric clusters and performing Coordinated Beamforming (CB) from each virtual cluster to the target user in the downlink. The underlying control policy is formulated via Lyapunov optimization to minimize the average total transmit power at the RRHs while ensuring the stability of the system. In particular, the designed control policy does not require a-priori knowledge of the probability distribution of data-traffic arrival and channel states, and is robust against the instantaneous channel estimation error in each time slot. Extensive simulation results are presented to illustrate performance gains and robustness of the proposed solutions.