Toward massive machine type communications in ultra-dense cellular IoT networks: Current issues and machine learning-assisted solutions

SK Sharma, X Wang - IEEE Communications Surveys & …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The ever-increasing number of resource-constrained machine-type communication (MTC)
devices is leading to the critical challenge of fulfilling diverse communication requirements …

A decoupled learning strategy for massive access optimization in cellular IoT networks

N Jiang, Y Deng, A Nallanathan… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cellular-based networks are expected to offer connectivity for massive Internet of Things
(mIoT) systems. However, their Random Access CHannel (RACH) procedure suffers from …

Narrowband IoT data transmission procedures for massive machine-type communications

P Andres-Maldonado, P Ameigeiras… - Ieee …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Large-scale deployments of massive machine type communications involve several
challenges on cellular networks. To address the challenges of massive machine-type …

A survey on 5G networks for the Internet of Things: Communication technologies and challenges

GA Akpakwu, BJ Silva, GP Hancke… - IEEE …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a promising technology which tends to revolutionize and
connect the global world via heterogeneous smart devices through seamless connectivity …

Massive machine-type communications in 5G: Physical and MAC-layer solutions

C Bockelmann, N Pratas, H Nikopour… - IEEE …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
MTC are expected to play an essential role within future 5G systems. In the FP7 project
METIS, MTC has been further classified into mMTC and uMTC. While mMTC is about …

[HTML][HTML] Machine type communications: key drivers and enablers towards the 6G era

NH Mahmood, S Böcker, I Moerman, OA López… - EURASIP Journal on …, 2021 - Springer
The recently introduced 5G New Radio is the first wireless standard natively designed to
support critical and massive machine type communications (MTC). However, it is already …

Cellular LTE-A technologies for the future Internet-of-Things: Physical layer features and challenges

M Elsaadany, A Ali, W Hamouda - … Communications Surveys & …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human-generated information has been the main interest of the wireless communication
technologies designs for decades. However, we are currently witnessing the emerge of an …

Collaborative distributed Q-learning for RACH congestion minimization in cellular IoT networks

SK Sharma, X Wang - IEEE Communications Letters, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to infrequent and massive concurrent access requests from the ever-increasing number
of machine-type communication (MTC) devices, the existing contention-based random …

Applying device-to-device communication to enhance IoT services

J Lianghai, B Han, M Liu… - IEEE Communications …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Massive machine type communication (mMTC) to serve billions of IoT devices is considered
to offer the potential to open a potential new market for the next generation cellular network …

Cloud assisted HetNets toward 5G wireless networks

N Zhang, N Cheng, AT Gamage… - IEEE …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the proliferation of connected devices and emerging data-hungry applications, the
volume of mobile data traffic is predicted to have a 1000-fold growth by the year 2020. To …