Oriol Sallent

David Reiss, Miguel Catalan-Cid, Daniel Camps et al.

The rapid expansion of 5G networks has intensified concerns over their sustainability, as denser Radio Access Network (RAN) deployments have increased overall power consumption. Although numerous studies have examined energy-efficient cell on/off switching, few have focused on approaches capable of dynamically adapting to operator-defined Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. In this paper, we propose a Long Short Term Memory (LSTM)based strategy, trained using a dataset from a European Mobile Network Operator (MNO), that enforces both target throughput levels and outage-tolerance constraints. Unlike previous approaches, our model adapts to different QoS requirements by tuning a decision threshold at inference time, enabling operators to balance energy savings and service guarantees without retraining. Across an unseen week, the method attains 63 to 96 % of an oracle's energy savings while largely meeting operator-specified constraints. We also provide CO2 and OPEX estimates under representative scenarios to quantify potential operator benefits.

Irene Vilà, Oriol Sallent, Jordi Pérez-Romero

The capacity sharing problem in Radio Access Network (RAN) slicing deals with the distribution of the capacity available in each RAN node among various RAN slices to satisfy their traffic demands and efficiently use the radio resources. While several capacity sharing algorithmic solutions have been proposed in the literature, their practical implementation still remains as a gap. In this paper, the implementation of a Reinforcement Learning-based capacity sharing algorithm over the O-RAN architecture is discussed, providing insights into the operation of the involved interfaces and the containerization of the solution. Moreover, the description of the testbed implemented to validate the solution is included and some performance and validation results are presented.