Paper Info
Title
Connectivity And Coverage In Machine-Type Communications
Abstract
Machine-type communication (MTC) provides a potential playground for deploying machine-to-machine (M2M), IP-enabled 'things' and wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that support modern, added-value services and applications. 4G/5G technology can facilitate the connectivity and the coverage of the MTC entities and elements by providing M2M-enabled gateways and base stations for carrying traffic streams to/from the backbone network. For example, the latest releases of long-term evolution (LTE) such as LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) are being transformed to support the migration of M2M devices. MTC-oriented technical definitions and requirements are defined to support the emerging M2M proliferation. ETSI describes three types of MTC access methods, namely a) the direct access, b) the gateway access and c) the coordinator access. This work is focused on studying coverage aspects when a gateway access takes place. A deployment planar field is considered where a number of M2M devices are randomly deployed, e.g., a hospital where body sensor networks form a M2M infrastructure. An analytical framework is devised that computes the average number of connected M2M devices when a M2C gateway is randomly placed for supporting connectivity access to the M2M devices. The introduced analytical framework is verified by simulation and numerical results.
Year
Venue
Field
2017
2017 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATIONS (ICC)
Base station,Logic gate,Software deployment,Access method,Computer science,Computer network,Default gateway,Cellular network,Wireless sensor network,Backbone network
DocType
ISSN
Citations 
Conference
1550-3607
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
10
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Panagiotis G. Sarigiannidis120340.49
Theodoros T. Zygiridis232.54
Antonios Sarigiannidis382.20
Thomas D. Lagkas46415.08
Mohammad S. Obaidat59917.27
Nikolaos V. Kantartzis6144.36