Radio resource allocation for extreme URLLC under partial knowledge of arrival distributions

We address radio resource allocation for the transport of extreme Ultra Reliable Low Latency and Reliability (URLLC) traffic. One illustrative use case is factory automation using 6G networks. In this context, extreme URLLC has very stringent Quality of Service (QoS) requirements: 0.1 ms for the delay and 10-7 for the reliability. Reliability can be even higher for other use cases. We model QoS in terms of outage probability, that is the likelihood of failing to serve at least one packet due to insufficient resources, and derive the minimal resource reservation that would meet such requirement. We formulate the problem as chance-constrained optimization and solve it assuming partial knowledge of arriving traffic distribution. We treat the case where traffic is described through its mean and variance, and make use of three approaches to find the optimal solution: distributionally robust using worst-case value at risk approach, distribution-based approximation and bounds from large deviation theory. We also solve the optimization problem using a data driven approach and propose a sliding window mechanism to perform it online. We compare the performance of the aforementioned approaches numerically and show the effectiveness of the data driven approach, accounting for user radio condition heterogeneity and thus different Modulation and Coding Schemes.