Slotted ALOHA Filtered Tree (SAFT) for a Reliable LTE RACH

Conference: European Wireless 2017 - 23th European Wireless Conference
05/17/2017 - 05/19/2017 at Dresden, Germany

Proceedings: European Wireless 2017

Pages: 7Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Guersu, Halit Murat; Martinez Alba, Alberto; Kellerer, Wolfgang (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

Abstract:
Medium access research has built upon the Poisson arrival assumption since the foundation of ALOHA. However, synchronous transmissions of mobile devices enforce a new bursty arrival type that opens opportunities for design decisions. These bursty arrivals are generally investigated under the scope of the Random Access Channel of LTE, in order to test whether cellular networks will be able to serve such a demand. We approach this problem from a different perspective and propose to separate the medium access scheme for initial arrivals and backlogged users. In order to minimize the access delay, we use tree algorithms to resolve backlogged users. We show with simulations that, by using the feedback that is already included in the random access procedure of LTE, our algorithm achieves lower access delays compared to state of the art solutions. Furthermore, we abstract the algorithm as a multi-channel tree algorithm and discuss limitations and feasible modifications.