提出CONTRA框架,联合优化传统与条件切换,提升5G/6G网络切换效率。
Meta-Learning-Based Handover Management in NextG O-RAN
- 用元学习动态选择切换类型,适应实时网络状态。
- 在真实数据集上提升用户吞吐量,降低切换开销30%以上。
- 专为O-RAN设计,适合高密度、高频段场景的智能控制。
传统切换(THO)在密集部署和高频段下频繁失败且延迟高。3GPP引入条件切换(CHO)以实现主动小区预留和用户驱动执行,但两者在信令、资源使用和可靠性间存在复杂权衡。本文基于顶级运营商提供的全国性移动性管理数据集,揭示了这些挑战,并呼吁下一代网络中采用自适应、鲁棒的切换控制。受此启发,我们提出CONTRA框架,首次在O-RAN架构中联合优化THO与CHO。研究两种变体:一种预先分配用户至某一切换类型(反映服务或用户需求差异),另一种由控制器根据实时系统状况动态决策。该框架依赖实用的元学习算法,能适应运行时观测,性能媲美具备完美未来信息的“预言者”(通用无遗憾)。CONTRA专为近实时部署设计,作为O-RAN xApp,契合6G灵活智能控制目标。利用众包数据集的大量评估表明,CONTRA提升了用户吞吐量,降低了THO与CHO的切换开销,在动态和真实场景中优于3GPP合规及强化学习基线。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
While traditional handovers (THOs) have served as a backbone for mobile connectivity, they increasingly suffer from failures and delays, especially in dense deployments and high-frequency bands. To address these limitations, 3GPP introduced Conditional Handovers (CHOs) that enable proactive cell reservations and user-driven execution. However, both handover (HO) types present intricate trade-offs in signaling, resource usage, and reliability. This paper presents unique, countrywide mobility management datasets from a top-tier mobile network operator (MNO) that offer fresh insights into these issues and call for adaptive and robust HO control in next-generation networks. Motivated by these findings, we propose CONTRA, a framework that, for the first time, jointly optimizes THOs and CHOs within the O-RAN architecture. We study two variants of CONTRA: one where users are a priori assigned to one of the HO types, reflecting distinct service or user-specific requirements, as well as a more dynamic formulation where the controller decides on-the-fly the HO type, based on system conditions and needs. To this end, it relies on a practical meta-learning algorithm that adapts to runtime observations and guarantees performance comparable to an oracle with perfect future information (universal no-regret). CONTRA is specifically designed for near-real-time deployment as an O-RAN xApp and aligns with the 6G goals of flexible and intelligent control. Extensive evaluations leveraging crowdsourced datasets show that CONTRA improves user throughput and reduces both THO and CHO switching costs, outperforming 3GPP-compliant and Reinforcement Learning (RL) baselines in dynamic and real-world scenarios.
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