Data-Assisted Radio Resource Allocation in Shared Spectrum Multi-RAT Heterogeneous Network

<p dir="ltr">New Radio Unlicensed (NR-U) is the key representative access technology beyond 5G implementation to alleviate the spectrum crunch. NR-U shares a 5 GHz unlicensed band with WiFi, which has contention challenges for the coexisting systems due to physical and link layer pro...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Salman Saadat (17541654) (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Sami Ahmed Haider (21400310) (author), Waleed Ejaz (10841928) (author), Amith Khandakar Md. Abdullah (21400313) (author)
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Sami Ahmed Haider (21400310)
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Communications engineering
Electrical engineering
Information and computing sciences
Artificial intelligence
Distributed computing and systems software
Machine learning
Mathematical sciences
Statistics
6G
Heterogeneous network
Machine learning
Multi-RAT
NR-U
Radio resource allocation
Spectrum sharing
Unlicensed band
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description <p dir="ltr">New Radio Unlicensed (NR-U) is the key representative access technology beyond 5G implementation to alleviate the spectrum crunch. NR-U shares a 5 GHz unlicensed band with WiFi, which has contention challenges for the coexisting systems due to physical and link layer protocols disparity. Being a scheduled access system, NR-U transmissions can only start at strict periodic time slots, which requires introducing a synchronization gap period in the listen-before-talk (LBT) approach. In this paper, we address these issues and analyze the impact of various gap-based NR-U approaches to the fair and efficient coexistence of the two networks. The dependency of successful spectrum access of the two systems on the gap period is also investigated. We also present a machine learning data-driven approach to unlicensed channel selection for spectrum sharing by NR-U. The results based on actual data collected from real-life WiFi deployment scenarios indicate significant improvement in coexistence performance and spectrum utilization of the unlicensed band with the proposed approach. It is shown through simulation results that the gap period before the backoff procedure provides better coexistence performance compared to the gap-based approach, where the synchronization gap is introduced after the LBT backoff. Further, the results indicate that if the gap interval exceeds a certain threshold value for each coexistence scenario, the WiFi network starts dominating the unlicensed channel, completely blocking the NR-U transmissions.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: IEEE Access<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>  <br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2024.3464372" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2024.3464372</a></p>
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spelling Data-Assisted Radio Resource Allocation in Shared Spectrum Multi-RAT Heterogeneous NetworkSalman Saadat (17541654)Sami Ahmed Haider (21400310)Waleed Ejaz (10841928)Amith Khandakar Md. Abdullah (21400313)EngineeringCommunications engineeringElectrical engineeringInformation and computing sciencesArtificial intelligenceDistributed computing and systems softwareMachine learningMathematical sciencesStatistics6GHeterogeneous networkMachine learningMulti-RATNR-URadio resource allocationSpectrum sharingUnlicensed band<p dir="ltr">New Radio Unlicensed (NR-U) is the key representative access technology beyond 5G implementation to alleviate the spectrum crunch. NR-U shares a 5 GHz unlicensed band with WiFi, which has contention challenges for the coexisting systems due to physical and link layer protocols disparity. Being a scheduled access system, NR-U transmissions can only start at strict periodic time slots, which requires introducing a synchronization gap period in the listen-before-talk (LBT) approach. In this paper, we address these issues and analyze the impact of various gap-based NR-U approaches to the fair and efficient coexistence of the two networks. The dependency of successful spectrum access of the two systems on the gap period is also investigated. We also present a machine learning data-driven approach to unlicensed channel selection for spectrum sharing by NR-U. The results based on actual data collected from real-life WiFi deployment scenarios indicate significant improvement in coexistence performance and spectrum utilization of the unlicensed band with the proposed approach. It is shown through simulation results that the gap period before the backoff procedure provides better coexistence performance compared to the gap-based approach, where the synchronization gap is introduced after the LBT backoff. Further, the results indicate that if the gap interval exceeds a certain threshold value for each coexistence scenario, the WiFi network starts dominating the unlicensed channel, completely blocking the NR-U transmissions.</p><h2>Other Information</h2><p dir="ltr">Published in: IEEE Access<br>License: <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</a>  <br>See article on publisher's website: <a href="https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2024.3464372" target="_blank">https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/access.2024.3464372</a></p>2024-09-19T03:00:00ZTextJournal contributioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontextcontribution to journal10.1109/access.2024.3464372https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Data-Assisted_Radio_Resource_Allocation_in_Shared_Spectrum_Multi-RAT_Heterogeneous_Network/29605220CC BY 4.0info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:figshare.com:article/296052202024-09-19T03:00:00Z
spellingShingle Data-Assisted Radio Resource Allocation in Shared Spectrum Multi-RAT Heterogeneous Network
Salman Saadat (17541654)
Engineering
Communications engineering
Electrical engineering
Information and computing sciences
Artificial intelligence
Distributed computing and systems software
Machine learning
Mathematical sciences
Statistics
6G
Heterogeneous network
Machine learning
Multi-RAT
NR-U
Radio resource allocation
Spectrum sharing
Unlicensed band
status_str publishedVersion
title Data-Assisted Radio Resource Allocation in Shared Spectrum Multi-RAT Heterogeneous Network
title_full Data-Assisted Radio Resource Allocation in Shared Spectrum Multi-RAT Heterogeneous Network
title_fullStr Data-Assisted Radio Resource Allocation in Shared Spectrum Multi-RAT Heterogeneous Network
title_full_unstemmed Data-Assisted Radio Resource Allocation in Shared Spectrum Multi-RAT Heterogeneous Network
title_short Data-Assisted Radio Resource Allocation in Shared Spectrum Multi-RAT Heterogeneous Network
title_sort Data-Assisted Radio Resource Allocation in Shared Spectrum Multi-RAT Heterogeneous Network
topic Engineering
Communications engineering
Electrical engineering
Information and computing sciences
Artificial intelligence
Distributed computing and systems software
Machine learning
Mathematical sciences
Statistics
6G
Heterogeneous network
Machine learning
Multi-RAT
NR-U
Radio resource allocation
Spectrum sharing
Unlicensed band