ETRI Journal (Dec 2022)

Reliability-guaranteed multipath allocation algorithm in mobile network

  • Jaewook Lee,
  • Haneul Ko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4218/etrij.2022-0205
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 44, no. 6
pp. 936 – 944

Abstract

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The mobile network allows redundant transmission via disjoint paths to support high-reliability communication (e.g., ultrareliable and low-latency communications [URLLC]). Although redundant transmission can improve communication reliability, it also increases network costs (e.g., traffic and control overhead). In this study, we propose a reliability-guaranteed multipath allocation algorithm (RG-MAA) that allocates appropriate paths by considering the path setup time and dynamicity of the reliability paths. We develop an optimization problem using a constrained Markov decision process (CMDP) to minimize network costs while ensuring the required communication reliability. The evaluation results show that RG-MAA can reduce network costs by up to 30% compared with the scheme that uses all possible paths while ensuring the required communication reliability.

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