IEEE Access (Jan 2018)

Towards Massive Connectivity Support for Scalable mMTC Communications in 5G Networks

  • Carsten Bockelmann,
  • Nuno K. Pratas,
  • Gerhard Wunder,
  • Stephan Saur,
  • Monica Navarro,
  • David Gregoratti,
  • Guillaume Vivier,
  • Elisabeth De Carvalho,
  • Yalei Ji,
  • Cedomir Stefanovic,
  • Petar Popovski,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Malte Schellmann,
  • Evangelos Kosmatos,
  • Panagiotis Demestichas,
  • Miruna Raceala-Motoc,
  • Peter Jung,
  • Slawomir Stanczak,
  • Armin Dekorsy

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2837382
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6
pp. 28969 – 28992

Abstract

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The fifth generation of cellular communication systems is foreseen to enable a multitude of new applications and use cases with very different requirements. A new 5G multi-service air interface needs to enhance broadband performance as well as provide new levels of reliability, latency, and supported number of users. In this paper, we focus on the massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC) service within a multi-service air interface. Specifically, we present an overview of different physical and medium access techniques to address the problem of a massive number of access attempts in mMTC and discuss the protocol performance of these solutions in a common evaluation framework.

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