Context-aware Cluster Based Device-to-Device Communication to Serve Machine Type Communications

Billions of Machine Type Communication (MTC) devices are foreseen to be deployed in next ten years and therefore potentially open a new market for next generation wireless network. However, MTC applications have different characteristics and requirements compared with the services provided by legacy cellular networks. For instance, an MTC device sporadically requires to transmit a small data packet containing information generated by sensors. At the same time, due to the massive deployment of MTC devices, it is inefficient to charge their batteries manually and thus a long battery life is required for MTC devices. In this sense, legacy networks designed to serve human-driven traffics in real time can not support MTC efficiently. In order to improve the availability and battery life of MTC devices, context-aware device-to-device (D2D) communication is exploited in this paper. By applying D2D communication, some MTC users can serve as relays for other MTC users who experience bad channel conditions. Moreover, signaling schemes are also designed to enable the collection of context information and support the proposed D2D communication scheme. Last but not least, a system level simulator is implemented to evaluate the system performance of the proposed technologies and a large performance gain is shown by the numerical results

Feasibility Study of Enabling V2X Communications by LTE-Uu Radio Interface

Compared with the legacy wireless networks, the next generation of wireless network targets at different services with divergent QoS requirements, ranging from bandwidth consuming video service to moderate and low date rate machine type services, and supporting as well as strict latency requirements. One emerging new service is to exploit wireless network to improve the efficiency of vehicular traffic and public safety. However, the stringent packet end-to-end (E2E) latency and ultra-low transmission failure rates pose challenging requirements on the legacy networks. In other words, the next generation wireless network needs to support ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC) involving new key performance indicators (KPIs) rather than the conventional metric, such as cell throughput in the legacy systems. In this paper, a feasibility study on applying today's LTE network infrastructure and LTE-Uu air interface to provide the URLLC type of services is performed, where the communication takes place between two traffic participants (e.g., vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-pedestrian). To carry out this study, an evaluation methodology of the cellular vehicle-to-anything (V2X) communication is proposed, where packet E2E latency and successful transmission rate are considered as the key performance indicators (KPIs). Then, we describe the simulation assumptions for the evaluation. Based on them, simulation results are depicted that demonstrate the performance of the LTE network in fulfilling new URLLC requirements. Moreover, sensitivity analysis is also conducted regarding how to further improve system performance, in order to enable new emerging URLLC services.Comment: Accepted by IEEE/CIC ICCC 201

Radio Link Enabler for Context-aware D2D Communication in Reuse Mode

Device-to-Device (D2D) communication is considered as one of the key technologies for the fifth generation wireless communication system (5G) due to certain benefits provided, e.g. traffic offload and low end-to-end latency. A D2D link can reuse resource of a cellular user for its own transmission, while mutual interference in between these two links is introduced. In this paper, we propose a smart radio resource management (RRM) algorithm which enables D2D communication to reuse cellular resource, by taking into account of context information. Besides, signaling schemes with high efficiency are also given in this work to enable the proposed RRM algorithm. Simulation results demonstrate the performance improvement of the proposed scheme in terms of the overall cell capacity

Applying Multi-Radio Access Technologies for Reliability Enhancement in Vehicle-to-Everything Communication

The design of the fifth generation (5G) cellular network should take account of the emerging services with divergent quality of service requirements. For instance, a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication is required to facilitate the local data exchange and therefore improve the automation level in automated driving applications. In this work, we inspect the performance of two different air interfaces (i.e., LTE-Uu and PC5) which are proposed by the third generation partnership project (3GPP) to enable the V2X communication. With these two air interfaces, the V2X communication can be realized by transmitting data packets either over the network infrastructure or directly among traffic participants. In addition, the ultra-high reliability requirement in some V2X communication scenarios can not be fulfilled with any single transmission technology (i.e., either LTE-Uu or PC5). Therefore, we discuss how to efficiently apply multi-radio access technologies (multi-RAT) to improve the communication reliability. In order to exploit the multi-RAT in an efficient manner, both the independent and the coordinated transmission schemes are designed and inspected. Subsequently, the conventional uplink is also extended to the case where a base station can receive data packets through both the LTE-Uu and PC5 interfaces. Moreover, different multicast-broadcast single-frequency network (MBSFN) area mapping approaches are also proposed to improve the communication reliability in the LTE downlink. Last but not least, a system level simulator is implemented in this work. The simulation results do not only provide us insights on the performances of different technologies but also validate the effectiveness of the proposed multi-RAT scheme

Applying Multi-Radio Access Technologies for Reliability Enhancement in Vehicle-to-Everything Communication

The design of the fifth generation (5G) cellular network should take account of the emerging services with divergent quality of service requirements. For instance, a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication is required to facilitate the local data exchange and therefore improve the automation level in automated driving applications. In this work, we inspect the performance of two different air interfaces (i.e., LTE-Uu and PC5) which are proposed by the third generation partnership project (3GPP) to enable the V2X communication. With these two air interfaces, the V2X communication can be realized by transmitting data packets either over the network infrastructure or directly among traffic participants. In addition, the ultra-high reliability requirement in some V2X communication scenarios can not be fulfilled with any single transmission technology (i.e., either LTE-Uu or PC5). Therefore, we discuss how to efficiently apply multi-radio access technologies (multi-RAT) to improve the communication reliability. In order to exploit the multi-RAT in an efficient manner, both the independent and the coordinated transmission schemes are designed and inspected. Subsequently, the conventional uplink is also extended to the case where a base station can receive data packets through both the LTE-Uu and PC5 interfaces. Moreover, different multicast-broadcast single-frequency network (MBSFN) area mapping approaches are also proposed to improve the communication reliability in the LTE downlink. Last but not least, a system level simulator is implemented in this work. The simulation results do not only provide us insights on the performances of different technologies but also validate the effectiveness of the proposed multi-RAT scheme