Smart beamforming for direct LEO satellite access of future IoT

Autor: Marius Caus, Eduard Mendez, Ana I. Perez-Neira
Přispěvatelé: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Teoria del Senyal i Comunicacions
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Beamforming
Internet of things
Internet de les coses
Computer science
Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing
MIMO
Throughput
Grant-free
02 engineering and technology
TP1-1185
Biochemistry
Article
Analytical Chemistry
beamforming
non-orthogonal multiple access
massive IoT
5G mobile communication systems
0203 mechanical engineering
Telecommunications link
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering

massive MIMO
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
grant-free
Instrumentation
020301 aerospace & aeronautics
Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
business.industry
Artificial satellites
Chemical technology
020206 networking & telecommunications
LEO
Massive IoT
Antenna diversity
Atomic and Molecular Physics
and Optics

Satèl·lits artificials
Channel state information
Non-orthogonal multiple access
Communications satellite
Enginyeria de la telecomunicació::Radiocomunicació i exploració electromagnètica::Satèl·lits i ràdioenllaços [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC]
orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
business
Massive MIMO
Computer network
Zdroj: Sensors
Volume 21
Issue 14
UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Sensors, Vol 21, Iss 4877, p 4877 (2021)
Popis: Non-terrestrial networks (NTN) are expected to play a key role in extending and complementing terrestrial 5G networks in order to provide services to air, sea, and un-served or under-served areas. This paper focuses the attention on the uplink, where terminals are able to establish a direct link with the NTN at Ka-band. To reduce the collision probability when a large population of terminals is transmitting simultaneously, we propose a grant-free access scheme called resource sharing beamforming access (RSBA). We study RBSA for low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications with massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). The idea is to benefit from the spatial diversity to decode multiple overlapped signals. We have devised a blind and open-loop beamforming technique, where neither the receiver must carry out brute-force search in azimuth and elevation, nor are the terminals required to report channel state information. Upon deriving the theoretical throughput, we show that RBSA is appropriate for grant-free access to LEO satellite, it reduces the probability of collision, and thus it increases the number of terminals that can access the media. Practical implementation aspects have been tackled, such as the estimation of the required statistics, and the determination of the number of users. This work has received funding from the ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities under project TERESATEC2017-90093-C3-1-R (AEI/FEDER,UE) and under grant RTI2018-099841-BI00 and from the Catalan Government (2017-SGR-1479).
Databáze: OpenAIRE