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Energy-Efficient Uplink Resource Units Scheduling for Ultra-Reliable Communications in NB-IoT Networks
(2018-01-01)
Liang, Jia-Ming
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Wu, Kun-Ru
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Chen, Jen-Jee
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Liu, Pei-Yi
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Tseng, Yu-Chee
For 5G wireless communications, the 3GPP Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is one of the most promising technologies, which provides multiple types of resource unit (RU) with a special repetition mechanism to improve the scheduling flexibility and enhance the coverage and transmission reliability. Besides, NB-IoT supports different operation modes to reuse the spectrum of LTE and GSM, which can make use of bandwidth more efficiently. The IoT application grows rapidly; however, those massive kir devices need to operate for a very long time. Thus, the energy consumption becomes a critical issue. Therefore, NB-IoT provides discontinuous reception operation to save devices' energy. But, how to further reduce the transmission energy while ensuring the required ultra-reliability is still an open issue. In this paper, we study how to guarantee the reliable communication and satisfy the quality of service (QoS) while minimizing the energy consumption for IoT devices. We first model the problem as an optimization problem and prove it to be NP-complete. Then, we propose an energy-efficient, ultra-reliable, and low-complexity scheme, which consists of two phases. The first phase tries to optimize the default transmit configurations of devices which incur the lowest energy consumption and satisfy the QoS requirement. The second phase leverages a weighting strategy to balance the emergency and inflexibility for determining the scheduling order to ensure the delay constraint while maintaining energy efficiency. Extensive simulation results show that our scheme can serve more devices with guaranteed QoS while saving their energy effectively.
Energy-Efficient Uplink Scheduling for Ultra-Reliable Communications in NB-IoT Networks
(2018-01-01)
Liu, Pei-Yi
;
Wu, Kun-Ru
;
Liang, Jia-Ming
;
Chen, Jen-Jee
;
Tseng, Yu-Chee
The 3GPP Narrowband Internet of Thing (NB-IoT) is the promising technology that can provide multiple types of resource unit (RU) with a special repetition mechanism to improve the scheduling flexibility and transmission reliability. Since the IoT devices need to operate for a very long time, the energy consumption becomes a critical issue. In this paper, we study how to guarantee the quality of service (QoS) while minimizing the energy consumption for IoT devices. We first model the problem and then propose an energy-efficient scheme, which consists of two stages. The first stage tries to incur the lowest energy consumption of devices and satisfy their QoS requirement. The second stage determines the scheduling order to ensure the delay constraint while maintaining energy efficiency. Simulation results show that our scheme can serve more devices while saving their energy.