Low Latency Signature-Based 4-Step Random Access Procedure for Massive Machine-Type Communications

Authors

  • Wei-Chieh Wang No.1, Sec. 1, Shennong Rd., Yilan City, Yilan County 260, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
  • Yao-Jen Liang No.1, Sec. 1, Shennong Rd., Yilan City, Yilan County 260, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
  • Hwang-Cheng Wang No.1, Sec. 1, Shennong Rd., Yilan City, Yilan County 260, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
  • Fang-Chang Kuo No.1, Sec. 1, Shennong Rd., Yilan City, Yilan County 260, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
  • Chih-Cheng Tseng No.1, Sec. 1, Shennong Rd., Yilan City, Yilan County 260, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/jmm1550-4646.2012

Keywords:

mMTC, 5G new radio (NR), Contention Based Random Access (CBRA), MTCDs, Signature

Abstract

Massive machine-type communication (mMTC) is one of the major services in the 5G new radio (NR) system. In the mMTC application scenarios, many machine-type communication devices (MTCDs) communicate with each other or through an MTC server. However, how to solve the problem of excessive MTCDs accessing the network simultaneously is an important task. To overcome the large number of random access collisions and retransmission problems, this paper proposes a method to solve the mMTC random access problem. The proposed method consists of two parts, modified Contention Based Random Access (CBRA) with 4-step RA type and 4-step Signature RA type. With the modified CBRA with 4-step RA type, each MTCD will obtain the information to generate the signature. After that, the 4-step Signature RA type is used for MTCDs to proceed with the random access with the gNB through the generated signatures. In our proposed method, the average number of false positives and average process time are evaluated under different numbers of active MTCDs and different parameter values for the signature generation. Besides, the average number of preamble attempts and average process time are used as the metrics to compare the proposed scheme with the 5G NR 4-step RA type. Finally, simulation results show that the proposed scheme performs better than the 5G NR 4-step RA type in the mMTC scenarios.

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Author Biographies

Wei-Chieh Wang, No.1, Sec. 1, Shennong Rd., Yilan City, Yilan County 260, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Wei-Chieh Wang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Department of Electrical Engineering from National Ilan University in 2020. His research interest and expertise are in mobile communications.

Yao-Jen Liang, No.1, Sec. 1, Shennong Rd., Yilan City, Yilan County 260, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Yao-Jen Liang received the Ph.D. degree in Communication Engineering from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, in 2010. He has more than six years experience in industry. From 2010 to 2011, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. From February 2011 to February 2012, he was a visiting scholar at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently an associate professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, National Ilan University. His current research interests include MIMO and OFDM systems, statistical signal processing, and molecular communications.

Hwang-Cheng Wang, No.1, Sec. 1, Shennong Rd., Yilan City, Yilan County 260, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Hwang-Cheng Wang received an M.S. degree in Computer Science and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a professor in the Department of Electronic Engineering, National Ilan University (NIU), Taiwan. He is the director of the Embedded Systems and Mobile Computing Laboratory at NIU. Prior to joining NIU, he was with the Data Communication Institute, Ministry of Transportation and Communications. He has been a visiting scholar at the Next Generation Internet Research Center, Beijing Jiaotong University, Information Science Institute, Academia Sinica, and LNM Institute of Information Technology, India. His research interests and expertise are in mobile communications, embedded systems, internet of things, machine and deep learning, and UAV. He has authored or co-authored journal and conference papers in these areas. He has also served as a technical committee member of international conferences and a reviewer for reputed journals and conferences.

Fang-Chang Kuo, No.1, Sec. 1, Shennong Rd., Yilan City, Yilan County 260, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Fang-Chang Kuo received the B.S. degree in E. E. from Tatung University in 1986, and Ph.D. degree in E. E. from National Central University, Taiwan, in 1997. He is currently a professor with the Department of Electronic Engineering, National Ilan University, Taiwan. Since 2014, he was a visiting scholar with the Department of Computer Science, University of Freiburg, Germany for one year. His research interests are in the areas of AIoT, communication networks and wireless communications.

Chih-Cheng Tseng, No.1, Sec. 1, Shennong Rd., Yilan City, Yilan County 260, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

Chih-Cheng Tseng received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, in 1994 and 1997 respectively, all in Electronic Engineering. He received his Ph.D. degree from the Graduate Institute of Communications Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China, in 2007. He is currently a full professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Ilan University, Yilan, Taiwan, Republic of China. He was a visiting researcher at the Center for TeleInFrastruktur (CTIF), Aalborg University, Denmark in 2007 summer. He has been actively involved in professional activities, serving as a Sponsorship Co-Chair of IEEE Globecom 2020, TPC Co-Chair of Qshine 2015 and WPMC 2023, co-organizer of NGWiFi workshop in IEEE WCNC 2014, HetCarrierCom workshop in IEEE Globecom 2015, 5G CAT workshop in Qshine 2016, and New Radio Technologies workshop in IEEE PIMRC 2017, general secretariat of WPMC 2012, special session organizer of the GWS 2013 and GWS 2014, and reviewer for SCI journals and international conferences. He is currently serving as the editor of the international journals IET Electronic Letters (SCI) and Journal of Mobile Multimedia. He also served as the guest editor of SCI journals such as International Journal of Sensor Networks, Wireless Personal Communications, and Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. His research interests include the design and performance evaluation of the next generation mobile communication technologies.

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Published

2024-02-05

How to Cite

Wang, W.-C. ., Liang, Y.-J. ., Wang, H.-C. ., Kuo, F.-C. ., & Tseng, C.-C. . (2024). Low Latency Signature-Based 4-Step Random Access Procedure for Massive Machine-Type Communications. Journal of Mobile Multimedia, 20(01), 23–48. https://doi.org/10.13052/jmm1550-4646.2012

Issue

2024: Vol 20 Iss 1

Section

6G: The Road for Future Wireless Networks (SOUL)