Online Energy-Efficient Power Control in Wireless Networks by Deep Neural Networks

Overview & Synopsis

The work describes how deep learning by artificial neural networks (ANNs) enables online power allocation for energy efficiency maximization in wireless interference networks. A deep ANN architecture is proposed and trained to take as input the network communication channels and to output suitable power allocations. It is shown that this approach requires a much lower computational complexity compared to traditional optimization-oriented approaches, dispensing with the need of solving the optimization problem anew in each channel coherence time. Despite the lower complexity, numerical results show that a properly trained ANN achieves similar performance as more traditional optimization-oriented methods.