Joint Access Control and Resource Allocation for Short-Packet-Based mMTC in Status Update Systems

In this article, we investigate the performance of massive machine type communications (mMTC) in status update systems, where massive machine type communication devices (MTCDs) send status packets to the BS for system monitoring. However, massive MTCDs sending status packets to the BS will cause sev...

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Published in:IEEE journal on selected areas in communications 2021-03, Vol.39 (3), p.851-865
Main Authors: Yu, Baoquan, Cai, Yueming, Wu, Dan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Access control
Closed-form solutions
Collisions
Electronic devices
Massive machine type communications
Measurement
Monitoring
Numerical models
packet collision
Resource allocation
Resource management
short packet communication
status update
Task analysis
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Summary:In this article, we investigate the performance of massive machine type communications (mMTC) in status update systems, where massive machine type communication devices (MTCDs) send status packets to the BS for system monitoring. However, massive MTCDs sending status packets to the BS will cause severe packet collisions, which will have a negative impact on status update performance. In this case, it is necessary to carry out reasonable access control and resource allocation scheme to improve the status update performance for mMTC. In this article, taking the features of mMTC into consideration, we first analyze access control, packet collisions and packet errors in mMTC respectively, and derive the closed-form expression of the average age of information for all MTCDs as the performance metric, and then propose a joint access control, frame division and subchannel allocation scheme to improve the overall status update performance. Simulation and numerical results verify the correctness of theoretical results and show that our proposed scheme can achieve almost the same performance as the exhaustive search method and outperforms benchmark schemes.
ISSN:0733-8716
1558-0008
DOI:10.1109/JSAC.2020.3018801