An ICI-Aware Scheduler for NB-IoT Devices in Co-existence with 5G NR

Autor: Shahida Jabeen, Anwar Haque
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: 5GWF
DOI: 10.1109/5gwf52925.2021.00048
Popis: 5G New Radio (NR) and Narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) co-existence is a promising technique to improve scalability and flexibility of future cellular networks. In this paper, we study the performance of an ICI-limited 5G NR based multi-cell network with a number of NB-IoT devices sharing a dedicated in-band resource block (RB). We propose a unified scheduler for maximizing instantaneous throughput and fairness over each RB. Numerical simulations with realistic inter-cell-interference (ICI) parameters have been used to evaluate the performance of the proposed RB allocation scheme for both NB-IoT devices and 5G NR UEs in an urban scenario. Our simulation results provide useful insights for designing a unified ICI-aware scheduler for 5G NR systems that can work in co-existence with various type of IoT devices.
Databáze: OpenAIRE