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Towards Massive Connectivity Support for Scalable mMTC Communications in 5G Networks
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The fifth generation of cellular communication systems is foreseen to enable a multitude of new applications and use cases with very different requirements. A new 5G multi-service air interface needs to enhance broadband performance as well as provide new levels of reliability, latency, and supported number of users. In this paper, we focus on the massive Machine Type Communications (mMTC) service within a multi-service air interface. Specifically, we present an overview of different physical and medium access techniques to address the problem of a massive number of access attempts in mMTC and discuss the protocol performance of these solutions in a common evaluation framework.
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- Authors
- Bockelmann, C., Pratas, N. K., Wunder, G., Saur, S., Navarro, M., Gregoratti, D., Vivier, G., De Carvalho, E., Ji, Y., Stefanovic, C., Popovski, P., Wang, Q., Schellmann, M., Kosmatos, E., Demestichas, P., Raceala-Motoc, M., Jung, P., Stanczak, S., & Dekorsy, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Bremen (DE)
- Aalborg University (DK)
- Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute (DE)
- Nokia Bell Labs, Stuttgart, Germany
- Centre Tecnològic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya, Castelldefels, Spain
- Centre Tecnologic de Telecomunicacions de Catalunya (ES)
- Sequans Communications (France) (FR)
- Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark
- Huawei German Research Center (DE)
- WINGS ICT Solutions (Greece) (GR)
- University of Piraeus (GR)
- Technische Universität Berlin (DE)
- Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- ORCID
- Venue
- IEEE Access
- Published
- 2018
- Volume
- 6
- Pages
- 28969-28992
- ISSN
- 2169-3536 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2795402406
- Cited by
- 289
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
- 2026: 12 · 2025: 23 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 28 · 2022: 41 · 2021: 64 · 2020: 54 · 2019: 33 · 2018: 6
- FWCI
- 15.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- IEEE Access (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Publikationsdatenbank der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) (submittedVersion)
- Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) (submittedVersion)
- VBN Forskningsportal (Aalborg Universitet) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- Horizon 2020 Project FANTASTIC-5G (ICT-671660)
- European Union
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › IoT Networks and Protocols
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Networks and Communications › IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Electrical and Electronic Engineering › Advanced MIMO Systems Optimization
- Keywords
- massive machine-type communications, 5G, massive connectivity, medium access control, physical layer techniques, protocol performance evaluation
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