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IEICE Transactions on Communications
Online ISSN : 1745-1345
Print ISSN : 0916-8516
Regular Section
NOMA-Based Highly-Efficient Low-Latency HARQ with Inter-Base Station Cooperation for URLLC
Ryota KOBAYASHITakanori HARAYasuaki YUDAKenichi HIGUCHI
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2023 Volume E106.B Issue 11 Pages 1219-1227

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This paper extends our previously reported non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based highly-efficient and low-latency hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) method for ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC) to the case with inter-base station cooperation. In the proposed method, delay-sensitive URLLC packets are preferentially multiplexed with best-effort enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) packets in the same channel using superposition coding to reduce the transmission latency of the URLLC packet while alleviating the throughput loss in eMBB. Although data transmission to the URLLC terminal is conducted by multiple base stations based on inter-base station cooperation, the proposed method allocates radio resources to URLLC terminals which include scheduling (bandwidth allocation) and power allocation at each base station independently to achieve the short transmission latency required for URLLC. To avoid excessive radio resource assignment to URLLC terminals due to independent resource assignment at each base station, which may result in throughput degradation in eMBB terminals, we employ an adaptive path-loss-dependent weighting approach in the scheduling-metric calculation. This achieves appropriate radio resource assignment to URLLC terminals while reducing the packet error rate (PER) and transmission delay time thanks to the inter-base station cooperation. We show that the proposed method significantly improves the overall performance of the system that provides simultaneous eMBB and URLLC services.

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