Remote Robotic Surgery: Joint Placement and Scheduling of VNF-FGs

Amina Hentati, Amin Ebrahimzadeh, Roch H. Glitho, Fatna Belqasmi, Rabeb Mizouni

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Abstract

Remote robotic surgery is one of the most interesting Tactile Internet (TI) applications. It has a huge potential to deliver healthcare services to remote locations. Moreover, it provides better precision and accuracy to diagnose and operate on patients. Remote robotic surgery requires ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability. The aforementioned stringent requirements do not apply for all the multimodal data traffic (i.e., audio, video, and haptic) triggered during a surgery session. Hence, customizing resource allocation policies according to the different quality-of-service (QoS) requirements is crucial in order to achieve a cost-effective deployment of such system. In this paper, we focus on resource allocation in a softwarized 5G-enabled TI remote robotic surgery system through the use of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). Specifically, this work is devoted to the joint placement and scheduling of application components in an NFV-based remote robotic surgery system, while considering haptic and video data. The problem is formulated as an integer linear program (ILP). Due to its complexity, we propose a greedy algorithm to solve the developed ILP in a computationally efficient manner. The simulation results show that our proposed algorithm is close to optimal and outperforms the benchmark solutions in terms of cost and admission rate. Furthermore, our results demonstrate that splitting application traffic to multiple VNF-forwarding graphs (VNF-FGs) with different QoS requirements achieves a significant gain in terms of cost and admission rate compared to modeling the whole application traffic with one VNF-FG having the most stringent requirements.

Original languageBritish English
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2022 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management
Subtitle of host publicationIntelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services, CNSM 2022
EditorsMarinos Charalambides, Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Walter Cerroni, Salil Kanhere, Lefteris Mamatas
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages205-211
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9783903176515
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event18th International Conference of Network and Service Management, CNSM 2022 - Thessaloniki, Greece
Duration: 31 Oct 20224 Nov 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2022 18th International Conference of Network and Service Management: Intelligent Management of Disruptive Network Technologies and Services, CNSM 2022

Conference

Conference18th International Conference of Network and Service Management, CNSM 2022
Country/TerritoryGreece
CityThessaloniki
Period31/10/224/11/22

Keywords

  • Joint Placement and Scheduling
  • Latency
  • Network Function Virtualization
  • Remote Robotic Surgery
  • Tactile Internet
  • Virtual Network Function
  • VNF Forwarding Graph

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