F.A. Aslan
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AI-enabled Radio Access Networks (AI-RANs) are expected to serve heterogeneous users with time-varying learning tasks over shared edge resources. Ensuring equitable inference performance across these users requires adaptive and fair learning mechanisms. This paper introduces an Online-Within-Online Fair Multi-Task Learning (OWO-FMTL) framework that ensures long-term equity across users. The method combines two learning loops: an outer loop updating the shared model across rounds and an inner loop re-balancing user priorities within each round with a lightweight primal-dual update. Equity is quantified via generalized α-fairness, allowing trading-off efficiency and fairness. The framework guarantees diminishing performance disparity over time and operates with low computational overhead suitable for edge deployment. Experiments on convex and deep-learning tasks confirm that OWO-FMTL outperforms existing multi-task learning baselines under dynamic scenarios.
O-RAN systems and their deployment in virtualized general-purpose computing platforms (O-Cloud) constitute a paradigm shift expected to bring unprecedented performance gains. However, these architectures raise new implementation challenges and threaten to worsen the already-high energy consumption of mobile networks. This paper presents first a series of experiments which assess the O-Cloud's energy costs and their dependency on the servers' hardware, capacity and data traffic properties which, typically, change over time. Next, it proposes a compute policy for assigning the base station data loads to O-Cloud servers in an energy-efficient fashion; and a radio policy that determines at near-real-Time the minimum transmission block size for each user so as to avoid unnecessary energy costs. The policies balance energy savings with performance, and ensure that both of them are dispersed fairly across the servers and users, respectively. To cater for the unknown and time-varying parameters affecting the policies, we develop a novel online learning framework with fairness guarantees that apply to the entire operation horizon of the system (long-Term fairness). The policies are evaluated using trace-driven simulations and are fully implemented in an O-RAN compatible system where we measure the energy costs and throughput in realistic scenarios.