arXiv:2602.09206eess.SYcs.LG2026-02中稿 · IEEE INFOCOM 2026被引 4

用AI优化5G基站节能,兼顾性能与省电。

EExApp: GNN-Based Reinforcement Learning for Radio Unit Energy Optimization in 5G O-RAN

  • 用双策略双评判强化学习,同时优化基站休眠和资源分配。
  • 实测降低基站能耗,且服务品质不下降。
  • 适合5G网络运维与绿色通信研究者参考。

全球已部署超过350万座5G基站,其年耗电量预计超131太瓦时,带来运营成本与环境影响的双重压力。本文提出EExAPP,一种基于深度强化学习(DRL)的5G开放无线接入网(O-RAN)xApp,联合优化射频单元(RU)休眠调度与分布式单元(DU)资源切片。EExAPP采用双策略双评判近端策略优化(PPO)架构,分别针对能效与服务质量(QoS)设计独立的策略-评判对。通过基于Transformer的编码器,将所有用户设备(UE)观测值压缩为固定维度表示,实现可扩展的用户规模处理。为协调两项目标,引入二分图注意力网络(GAT),依据两个评判输出动态调节策略更新,实现功率节省与QoS之间的自适应权衡。我们在真实5G O-RAN测试平台部署EExAPP,支持实时流量、商用RU及智能手机。大量空中实验与消融研究证实,相比现有方法,EExAPP显著降低RU能耗并维持QoS水平。源代码见https://github.com/EExApp/EExApp。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

With over 3.5 million 5G base stations deployed globally, their collective energy consumption (projected to exceed 131 TWh annually) raises significant concerns over both operational costs and environmental impacts. In this paper, we present EExAPP, a deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based xApp for 5G Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) that jointly optimizes radio unit (RU) sleep scheduling and distributed unit (DU) resource slicing. EExAPP uses a dual-actor-dual-critic Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) architecture, with dedicated actor-critic pairs targeting energy efficiency and quality-of-service (QoS) compliance. A transformer-based encoder enables scalable handling of variable user equipment (UE) populations by encoding all-UE observations into fixed-dimensional representations. To coordinate the two optimization objectives, a bipartite Graph Attention Network (GAT) is used to modulate actor updates based on both critic outputs, enabling adaptive trade-offs between power savings and QoS. We have implemented EExAPP and deployed it on a real-world 5G O-RAN testbed with live traffic, commercial RU and smartphones. Extensive over-the-air experiments and ablation studies confirm that EExAPP significantly outperforms existing methods in reducing the energy consumption of RU while maintaining QoS. The source code is available at https://github.com/EExApp/EExApp.

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