Unsourced Multiple Access for 6G Massive Machine Type Communications

Unsourced multiple access(UMA)is a multi-access technology for massive,low-power,uncoordinated,and unsourced Machine Type Communication(MTC)networks.It ensures transmission reliability under the premise of high energy efficiency.Based on the analysis of the 6G MTC key performance indicators(KPIs)and scenario characteristics,this paper summarizes its requirements for radio access networks.Following this,the existing multiple access models are analyzed under these standards to determine UMA's advantages for 6G MTC according to its design characteristics.The critical technology of UMA is the design of its multiple-access coding scheme.Therefore,the existing UMA coding schemes from different coding paradigms are further summarized and compared.In particular,this paper comprehensively considers the energy efficiency and computational complexity of these schemes,studies the changes of the above two indexes with the increase of access scale,and considers the trade-off between the two.It is revealed by the above analysis that some guiding rules of UMA coding design.Finally,the open problems and potentials in this field are given for future research.

Resource Allocation for Massive Machine Type Communications in the Finite Blocklength Regime

Massive machine type communications(mMTC)have been regarded as promising applications in the future.One main feature of mMTC is short packet communication.Different from traditional long packet communication,short packet communication suffers from transmission rate degradation and a significant error rate is introduced.In this case,traditional resource allocation scheme for mMTC is no longer applicable.In this paper,we explore resource allocation for cellular-based mMTC in the finite blocklength regime.First,to mitigate the load of the base station(BS),we establish a framework for cellularbased mMTC,where MTCGs reuse the resources of cellular users(CUs),aggregate the packets generated by MTCDs,and forward them to the BS.Next,we adopt short packet theory to obtain the minimum required blocklength of a packet that transmits a certain amount of information.Then,by modeling the process of MTCGs-assisted communication as a queuing process,we derive the closed-form expression of the average delay of all MTCDs.Guided by this,we propose a joint power allocation and spectrum sharing scheme to minimize the average delay.Finally,the simulation results verify the correctness of the theoretical results and show that the proposed scheme can reduce the average delay efficiently.

Hybrid Multiple Access and Service-Oriented Resource Allocation for Heterogeneous QoS Provisioning in Machine Type Communications

Non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA)has emerged as one important enabling technology for future wireless communications and services,including machine type communication(MTC).Unfortunately,supporting diverse MTC services and massive connectivity is still challenging due to the very different service requirements,scarce radio resources,limited battery capacity of MTC devices,as well as rapidly changing network conditions.In this paper,a hybrid-multipleaccess(HMA)scheme for service-oriented resource allocation scheme is proposed in supporting diverse MTC services for resource constrained devices and networks.In the proposed scheme,HMA allows MTC devices to choose a suitable type of multiple access technique according to their channel conditions,power constraints,and quality of service(QoS)requirements.To support service-oriented resource allocation,the physical network is firstly sliced into several virtualized networks based on QoS requirements and hardware conditions of MTC devices.A novel utility function integrating network performance and the power consumption in MTC devices is proposed.Furthermore,the resource allocation problem is formulated as an optimization problem to maximize the different utility functions under constraints of user QoS requirements and maximum transmitted power.To improve computational capacity as well as reduce the operational latency,a cloud-edge collaborative scheme is further designed to share the computation loads between the cloud and edge.Simulation results demonstrate the proposed service-oriented resource allocation scheme is effective and illustrate that the proposed hybrid multiple access method provides better performance than NOMA in terms of effective energy efficiency.