Enhancing Uplink Performance of NR RedCap in Industrial 5G/B5G Systems

Salwa Saafi; Olga Vikhrova; Sergey Andreev; Jiri Hosek

doi:10.1109/ICCWorkshops53468.2022.9814497

Enhancing Uplink Performance of NR RedCap in Industrial 5G/B5G Systems

Salwa Saafi^*
, Olga Vikhrova
, Sergey Andreev
, Jiri Hosek

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The evolution of cellular fifth-generation (5G) tech-nologies shapes the future of the manufacturing industry by enabling sector automation and digitalization. Smart factories rely primarily on wireless connectivity provided by new radio (NR) systems to meet the stringent requirements of industrial applications. Among these, several industrial wearable and sensor-based services involve devices with relaxed communication capabilities as compared to Rel-15 NR user equipment. Hence, a new category of reduced-capability (RedCap) devices becomes essential in industrial private networks. As RedCap devices may experience degradation of uplink (UL) performance due to simplifications in radio frequency and baseband capabilities, this paper focuses on enhancing NR RedCap operations with existing 5G solutions for UL improvement, namely, dual connectivity, carrier aggregation, and supplementary UL. Specifically, we discuss these options for RedCap wearable devices and evaluate the performance gains of the selected technology using link-level simulations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC Workshops 2022
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	520-525
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781665426718
ISBN (Print)	9781665426725
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCWorkshops53468.2022.9814497
Publication status	Published - 2022
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops - Seoul, Korea, Republic of Duration: 16 May 2022 → 20 May 2022

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Name	IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops
ISSN (Print)	2164-7038
ISSN (Electronic)	2694-2941

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Conference	IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops
Country/Territory	Korea, Republic of
City	Seoul
Period	16/05/22 → 20/05/22

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 Research under the Marie Sklodowska Curie grant agreement no. 813278 (A-WEAR: A network for dynamic wearable applications with privacy constraints, http://www.a-wear.eu/). This work was also supported by the Academy of Finland (projects Emc2-ML, RADIANT, and IDEA-MILL).

Keywords

Carrier Aggregation
Dual Connectivity
Industrial 5G
NR RedCap
Supplementary UL

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Artificial Intelligence
Computer Networks and Communications
Signal Processing
Control and Optimization

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Saafi, S, Vikhrova, O, Andreev, S & Hosek, J 2022, Enhancing Uplink Performance of NR RedCap in Industrial 5G/B5G Systems. in 2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC Workshops 2022. IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, IEEE, pp. 520-525, IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, Seoul, Korea, Republic of, 16/05/22. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCWorkshops53468.2022.9814497

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2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC Workshops 2022. IEEE, 2022. p. 520-525 (IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops).

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