Systems Engineering and Electronics ›› 2023, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (8): 2606-2614.doi: 10.12305/j.issn.1001-506X.2023.08.36

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Grant-free random access scheme for mMTC based on multi-power level and multi-preamble

Jingwen WANG1,2, Jing ZHANG1,2,3,*, Chulong LIANG4   

  1. 1. College of Telecommunication & Information Technology, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China
    2. Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Wireless Communications, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China
    3. Institute of Internet of Things, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210003, China
    4. ZTE Corporation, Shenzhen 518057, China
  • Received:2022-06-27 Online:2023-07-25 Published:2023-08-03
  • Contact: Jing ZHANG

Abstract:

Traditional grant-free random access schme has a serious problem on preamble collision, which greatly limits the random access performance of the end side. In order to reduce the preamble collision and improve the probability of grant-free random access, a multi-power level and multi-slot joint grant-free random access scheme based on multiple input multiple output(MIMO) is proposed. In the proposed scheme, the active user randomly selects multiple preamble sequences from the preamble pool to form a combined preamble and selects a sending power level according to its own position to transmit the combined preamble and signal to the base station in sequence according corresponding level. The base station uses sequential interference cancellation(SIC) technology to separate signal of different power levels, and then identifies competing users and estimates random access conflicts through preamble detection. The simulation results show that compared with the single non-orthogonal multiple access(NOMA) scheme and the single multi-preamble scheme, the proposed scheme can effectively improve the access success probability of users, and has a better adaptability to massive random access scenarios.

Key words: random access, multi-power level, combined preamble, sequential interference cancellation(SIC)

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