• Computer Science > Networking and Internet Architecture [Submitted on 18 Feb 2026] Title:HyRA: A Hybrid Resource Allocation Framework for RAN Slicing View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:The advent of 5G and the emergence of 6G networks demand unprecedented flexibility and efficiency in Radio Access Network (RAN) resource management to satisfy diverse service-level agreements (SLAs). • Existing RAN slicing frameworks predominantly rely on per-slice resource reservation, which ensures performance isolation but leads to inefficient utilization, particularly under bursty traffic. • We introduce HyRA, a hybrid resource allocation framework for RAN slicing that combines dedicated per-slice allocations with shared resource pooling across slices. • HyRA preserves performance isolation while improving resource efficiency by leveraging multiplexing gains in bursty traffic conditions. • We formulate this design as a bi-level stochastic optimization problem, where the outer loop determines the dedicated and shared resource budgets and the inner loop performs per-UE scheduling under a novel water-filling approach. • By using the sample-average approximation, the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions of the inner loop, and Big-M encoding, we transform the problem into a tractable mixed-integer program that standard optimization solvers can solve.
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- Computer Science > Networking and Internet Architecture [Submitted on 18 Feb 2026] Title:HyRA: A Hybrid Resource Allocation Framework for RAN Slicing View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:The advent of 5G and the emergence of 6G networks demand unprecedented flexibility and efficiency in Radio Access Network (RAN) resource management to satisfy diverse service-level agreements (SLAs). Existing RAN slicing frameworks predominantly rely on per-slice resource reservation, which ensures performance isolation but leads to inefficient utilization, particularly under bursty traffic. We introduce HyRA,
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