Safe And Accelerated Deep Reinforcement Learning-based O-RAN Slicing: A Hybrid Transfer Learning Approach

Abstract

The open radio access network (O-RAN) architecture supports intelligent network control algorithms as one of its core capabilities. Data-driven applications incorporate such algorithms to optimize radio access network (RAN) functions via RAN intelligent controllers (RICs). Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms are among the main approaches adopted in the O-RAN literature to solve dynamic radio resource management problems. However, despite the benefits introduced by the O-RAN RICs, the practical adoption of DRL algorithms in real network deployments falls behind. This is primarily due to the slow convergence and unstable performance exhibited by DRL agents upon deployment and when encountering previously unseen network conditions. In this paper, we address these challenges by proposing transfer learning (TL) as a core component of the training and deployment workflows for the DRL-based closed-loop control of O-RAN functionalities. To this end, we propose and design a hybrid TL-a

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