In this paper, we present a punctured scheduling scheme for efficient transmission of low latency communication (LLC) traffic, multiplexed on a downlink shared channel with enhanced mobile broadband traffic (eMBB). Puncturing allows to schedule eMBB traffic on all shared channel resources, without prior reservation of transmission resources for sporadically arriving LLC traffic. When LLC traffic arrives, it is immediately scheduled with a short transmission by puncturing part of the ongoing eMBB transmissions. To have this working efficiently, we propose recovery mechanisms for punctured eMBB transmissions, and a service-specific scheduling policy and link adaptation. Among others, we find that it is advantageous to include an element of eMBB-awareness for the scheduling decisions of the LLC transmissions (i.e. those that puncture ongoing eMBB transmissions), to primarily puncture eMBB transmission(s) that are transmitted with low modulation and coding scheme index. System level simulations are presented to demonstrate the benefits of the proposed solution.
In this article, we present a holistic overview of the agile multiuser scheduling functionality in 5G. An E2E perspective is given, including the enhanced QoS architecture that comes with 5G, and the large number of scheduling related options from the new access stratum sub-layer, MAC, and PHY layer. A survey of the 5G design agreements from the recently concluded 5G Study in 3GPP is presented, and it is explained how to best utilize all these new degrees of freedom to arrive at an agile scheduling design that offers superior E2E performance for a variety of services with highly diverse QoS requirements. Enhancements to ensure efficient implementation of the 5G scheduler for different network architectures are outlined. Finally, state-of-the-art system level performance results are presented, showing the ability to efficiently multiplex services with highly diverse QoS requirements.
In this paper we present our latest findings on dynamic user-centric scheduling for a flexible 5G radio design, capable of serving users with highly diverse QoS requirements. The benefits of being able to schedule users with different transmission time intervals (TTIs) are demonstrated, in combination with a usercentric multiplexing of control and data channels. The proposed solution overcomes some of the shortcomings of LTE-Advanced in terms of scheduling flexibility and performance. In general it is found that using short TTIs is advantageous at low to medium offered traffic loads for TCP download to faster overcome the slow start phase, while at higher offered traffic loads the best performance is achieved with longer TTIs. Using longer TTI sizes results in less control overhead (from scheduling grants), and therefore higher spectral efficiency. The presented analysis leads to the conclusion that a future 5G design shall include support for dynamic scheduling with different TTI sizes to achieve the best performance.
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