On the Achievable Coverage and Uplink Capacity of Machine-Type Communications (MTC) in LTE Release 13

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On the Achievable Coverage and Uplink Capacity of Machine-Type Communications (MTC) in LTE Release 13

Saxena, Vidit / Wallen, Anders / Tirronen, Tuomas / Razaghi, Hazhir Shokri / Bergman, Johan / Blankenship, Yufei

LTE Release 13 has introduced coverage enhancement (CE) mode "CE Mode B" to support MTC deployments that require medium-to-large CE, compared to the baseline LTE coverage for voice communications. In this paper, we describe the operation of CE Mode B for the supported physical data and control channels, and study the dimensioning of this mode for each of these channels. We provide link-level simulation results for CE Mode B, which illustrate the possibility of MTC operation at a coupling loss up to 160 dB. Further, we study the achievable uplink capacity in terms of the blocking probability of new scheduling requests. Finally for a few representative scenarios, we show that the existing LTE configurations can provide sufficient uplink capacity.

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Title :

On the Achievable Coverage and Uplink Capacity of Machine-Type Communications (MTC) in LTE Release 13

Contributors:

Saxena, Vidit (author) / Wallen, Anders (author) / Tirronen, Tuomas (author) / Razaghi, Hazhir Shokri (author) / Bergman, Johan (author) / Blankenship, Yufei (author)

Published in:

2016 IEEE 84th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC-Fall) ; 1-6

Publication date :

2016-09-01

Size :

643028 byte

ISBN :

978-1-5090-1701-0

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCFall.2016.7881115

Type of media :

Conference paper