scholarly journals Autonomous Power Decision for the Grant Free Access MUSA Scheme in the mMTC Scenario

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Wissal Ben Ameur ◽  
Philippe Mary ◽  
Jean-François Hélard ◽  
Marion Dumay ◽  
Jean Schwoerer
Keyword(s):  
Interference Cancellation ◽  
Error Propagation ◽  
Multiple Access ◽  
Transmission Rate ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Decoding Complexity ◽  
Machine Type ◽  
Machine Type Communications ◽  
Multiple Access Schemes ◽  
Lower Complexity

Non-orthogonal multiple access schemes with grant free access have been recently highlighted as a prominent solution to meet the stringent requirements of massive machine-type communications (mMTCs). In particular, the multi-user shared access (MUSA) scheme has shown great potential to grant free access to the available resources. For the sake of simplicity, MUSA is generally conducted with the successive interference cancellation (SIC) receiver, which offers a low decoding complexity. However, this family of receivers requires sufficiently diversified received user powers in order to ensure the best performance and avoid the error propagation phenomenon. The power allocation has been considered as a complicated issue especially for a decentralized decision with a minimum signaling overhead. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for an autonomous power decision with a minimal overhead based on a tight approximation of the bit error probability (BEP) while considering the error propagation phenomenon. We investigate the efficiency of multi-armed bandit (MAB) approaches for this problem in two different reward scenarios: (i) in Scenario 1, each user reward only informs about whether its own packet was successfully transmitted or not; (ii) in Scenario 2, each user reward may carry information about the other interfering user packets. The performances of the proposed algorithm and the MAB techniques are compared in terms of the successful transmission rate. The simulation results prove that the MAB algorithms show a better performance in the second scenario compared to the first one. However, in both scenarios, the proposed algorithm outperforms the MAB techniques with a lower complexity at user equipment.

scholarly journals Frame-Based Random Access with Interference Cancellation across Frames for Massive Machine Type Communications

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minjoong Rim ◽  
Seungyeob Chae
Keyword(s):  
Interference Cancellation ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Random Access ◽  
Single Copy ◽  
Machine Type ◽  
Access Scheme ◽  
Machine Type Communications ◽  
Communication Devices ◽  
Multiple Copies ◽  
Different Characteristics

One of the main requirements for next generation mobile or wireless communication systems is to effectively support a large number of machine type communication devices for Internet of things applications. In order to improve the random access capability in frame-based slotted Aloha environments, coded random access techniques have been proposed, in which multiple copies of a packet are transmitted per frame and the copies are cancelled out from the received signal if any single copy is successfully received. They, however, may increase the transmission power by sending multiple copies per frame. Above all, for systems with a small number of slots per frame, they may not be able to improve the performance by readily reaching a congested state. This paper proposes a new frame-based random access scheme, which sends at most one copy of a packet per frame but uses interference cancellation to improve the performance. If a successfully received packet is a retransmitted one, the previously transmitted signals for the packet can be cancelled out from the received signals for trying to decode other received packets. The proposed scheme has different characteristics than coded random access schemes and can be also combined with them to further improve the performance.

scholarly journals Is Satellite Ahead of Terrestrial in Deploying NOMA for Massive Machine-Type Communications?

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (13) ◽  
pp. 4290
Author(s):  
Antonio Arcidiacono ◽  
Daniele Finocchiaro ◽  
Riccardo De Gaudenzi ◽  
Oscar del Rio-Herrero ◽  
Stefano Cioni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Access ◽  
Random Access ◽  
Satellite Network ◽  
Service Cost ◽  
Satellite Technology ◽  
Machine Type ◽  
Ground Segment ◽  
Machine Type Communications ◽  
Technical Solutions ◽  
Access Technique

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technologies are considered key technologies for terrestrial 5G massive machine-type communications (mMTC) applications. It is less known that NOMA techniques were pioneered about ten years ago in the satellite domain to match the growing demand for mMTC services. This paper presents the key features of the first NOMA-based satellite network, presenting not only the underlying technical solutions and measured performance but also the related deployment over the Eutelsat satellite fleet. In particular, we describe the specific ground segment developments for the user terminals and the gateway station. It is shown that the developed solution, based on an Enhanced Spread ALOHA random access technique, achieves an unprecedented throughput, scalability and service cost and is well matched to several mMTC satellite use cases. The ongoing R&D lines covering both the ground segment capabilities enhancement and the extension to satellite on-board packet demodulation are also outlined. These pioneering NOMA satellite technology developments and in-the-field deployments open up the possibility of developing and exploiting 5G mMTC satellite- and terrestrial-based systems in a synergic and interoperable architecture.

scholarly journals On the Application of Massive MIMO Systems to Machine Type Communications

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe A. P. de Figueiredo ◽  
Fabbryccio A. C. M. Cardoso ◽  
Ingrid Moerman ◽  
Gustavo Fraidenraichz
Keyword(s):  
Interference Cancellation ◽  
Massive Mimo ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Mimo Systems ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Channel Estimator ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Machine Type ◽  
Machine Type Communications ◽  
Optimal Linear

This paper evaluates the feasibility of applying Massive MIMO to tackle the uplink mixed-service communication problem. Under the assumption of an available physical narrowband shared channel (PNSCH), devised to exclusively consume data traffic from Machine Type Communications (MTC) devices, the capacity (i:e:, number of connected devices) of MTC networks and, in turn, that of the whole system, can be increased by clustering such devices and letting each cluster share the same time-frequency physical resource blocks. Following this research line, we study the possibility of employing sub-optimal linear detectors to the problem and present a simple and practical channel estimator that works without previous knowledge of the large-scale channel coefficients. Our simulation results suggest that the proposed channel estimator performs asymptotically as well as the MMSE estimator with respect to the number of antennas and the uplink transmission power. Furthermore, the results also indicate that, as the number of antennas is made progressively larger, the performance of sub-optimal linear detection methods approaches the perfect interference-cancellation bound. The findings presented in this paper shed light on and motivate for new and exciting research lines towards a better understanding of the use of massive MIMO in MTC networks.

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