Sub-Band Assignment and Power Control for IoT Cellular Networks via Deep Learning

As various Internet of things (IoT) communication services have recently received great attention, the development of resource allocation scheme that can support the connection of a number of IoT devices becomes an important task for next-generation communication systems. Motivated this challenge, we propose deep learning-based optimization algorithms for a joint resource allocation problem in uplink IoT cellular networks, in which the base station uses multiple sub-bands to serve IoT users and inter sub-band interference exists due to spectral leakage. Specifically, to maximize the achievable sum rate of IoT users with low complexity, we develop a two-stage optimization method built on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that sequentially optimizes sub-band assignment and transmit power control. Moreover, in order to examine the performance according to the neural network structure, the proposed scheme is also implemented through fully-connected neural networks (FNNs) and compared with the CNN-based scheme. Simulation results show that our proposed CNN-based algorithm significantly improves the sum rate and reduces the required computation time compared to previous schemes without deep learning.