Ultra-low latency service provision in 5G Fog-Radio Access Networks

With the increasing demand for ultra-low latency services in 5G cellular networks, fog with edge computing is one of promising solutions which migrate the computing from the cloud to the edge of the network. Rather than relying on the distant cloud or additional servers, we propose the Fog-Radio Access Network (F-RAN), which leverages the current infrastructures in the radio access network, such as small cells and macro base stations, to pursue the ultra-low latency by joint powerful computing of multiple F-RAN nodes and near-range communications at the edge. The optimization problem is firstly formulated to tackle the tradeoff between communication and computing resources into time domain within distributed computing scenario, and then we propose a cooperative task computing operation algorithm to simultaneously decide how many F-RAN nodes should be selected with proper communication resource allocation and computing task assignment. The numerical results show that the ultra low-latency services can be achieved by F-RAN via cooperative task computing. ? 2016 IEEE.