System and method for joint power allocation and routing for software defined networks

A communications system controller, comprising:

• a processor;
• a nontransitory computer readable medium coupled to the processor and having stored thereon instructions for:
• communicating with nodes on a communication network;
• receiving transmission parameter information from the nodes for links and wireless connections having endpoints at respective ones of the nodes;
• and
• performing joint traffic engineering and physical layer power control by performing a portion of a flow routing and power control optimization process that comprises a combined alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) flow control process and a power management process, wherein the ADMM process and the power management process each use one or more same weighting coefficients;
• wherein the flow routing and power control optimization process generates, using the transmission parameter information and the one or more same weighting coefficients updated by the ADMM process, optimized parameters determining communications by each of the nodes based on at least co-channel interferences among links between the nodes, the optimized parameters comprising at least one optimized routing management parameter and at least one optimized power management parameter;
• wherein the joint traffic engineering and physical layer power control comprises generating commands according to the optimized parameters and controlling, using the commands, one of routing of transmissions of a plurality of routers and wireless transmission provisioning of a plurality of base stations;
• wherein the flow routing and power control optimization process comprises power control optimization and flow routing optimization in an integrated process;
• and
• wherein the flow routing and power control optimization comprises a combined ADMM process and power management process.

A method for network resource management comprising:

• receiving, at a controller, first parameter information for links between nodes connected to the controller;
• receiving, at the controller, second parameter information for connections between the nodes and user devices;
• performing joint traffic engineering and physical layer power control on the controller and using a flow routing and power control optimization process that comprises a combined alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) flow control process and a power management process, wherein the ADMM process and the power management process each use one or more same weighting coefficients updated by the ADMM process, wherein the flow routing and power control optimization process comprises power control optimization and flow routing optimization in an integrated process, and wherein the flow routing and power control optimization comprises a combined ADMM process and power management process;
• generating, at the controller, first and second commands according to optimization parameters determined using the first parameter information, the second parameter information, and the one or more same weighting coefficients by the flow routing and power control optimization process based on at least co-channel interferences among the links between the nodes connected to the controller, the optimization parameters comprising at least one optimization routing management parameter and at least one optimization power management parameter;
• and
• transmitting the first and second commands from the controller to the nodes connected to the controller;
• wherein the first commands are for modifying transmission parameters for the links between the nodes;
• and
• wherein the second commands are for modifying transmission parameters for the connections between the nodes and the user devices.