| Title | : | Coverage and Rate Analysis for Facilitating Multi-Hop M2M Communication in LTE-A Networks using D2D Communication |
| Speaker | : | Siba Narayan Swain (IITM) |
| Details | : | Thu, 30 Mar, 2017 2:00 PM @ BSB 361 |
| Abstract: | : | With a wide range of applications, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication has become an emerging technology for connecting generic machines to the Internet. It refers to the ways of enabling automated applications that provide connectivity among machines without any human interaction. To ensure ubiquity in connections across all machines, it is necessary to have a standard infrastructure (such as 3GPP LTE-A standard) that facilitates such type of communications.
However, owing to the huge scale of machines being deployed in near future and the nature of data transactions, ensuring ubiquitous connections among all the machines will be difficult. Solutions that not only maintain connectivity but also route machine data in a cost effective manner are the need of the hour. In this context, it has been suggested that Device-to-Device (D2D) communication can play a very important role in expanding network coverage and routing the data between source-destination machine pairs. In this work, we conduct a feasibility study to highlight the impact of multi-hop D2D communication in increasing the network coverage and average rate of a Machine Type Communication (MTC) device. We present a stochastic geometry based framework to analyze the coverage probability and average data rate of a three-hop M2M network deployed along with User Equipments (UEs) and conduct extensive simulations to study the system performance. Our simulation results show that the three-hop M2M network formed from out-of-range MTC devices and UEs can significantly improve the coverage and average rate of the entire network. |
