Comeback Kid: Resilience for Mixed-Critical Wireless Network Resource Management

Abstract

The future sixth generation (6G) of communication systems is envisioned to provide numerous applications in safety-critical contexts, e.g., driverless traffic, modular industry, and smart cities, which require outstanding performance, high reliability and fault tolerance, as well as autonomy. Ensuring criticality awareness for diverse functional safety applications and providing fault tolerance in an autonomous manner are essential for future 6G systems. Therefore, this paper proposes jointly employing the concepts of resilience and mixed criticality. In this contribution, we conduct physical layer resource management in cloud-based networks under the rate-splitting paradigm, which is a promising factor towards achieving high resilience. We recapitulate the concepts individually, outline a joint metric to measure the criticality-aware resilience, and verify its merits in a case study. We, thereby, formulate a non-convex optimization problem, derive an efficient iterative algorithm, propose four resilience mechanisms differing in quality and time of adaption, and conduct numerical simulations. Towards this end, a highly autonomous rate-splitting-enabled physical layer resource management algorithm for future 6G networks respecting mixed-critical QoS levels and providing high levels of resilience is proposed. Results emphasize the appreciable improvements of implementing mixed criticality-aware resilience under channel outages and strict quality of service (QoS) demands. The rate-splitting paradigm is particularly shown to overcome state-of-the-art interference management techniques, and the resilience and throughput adaption over consecutive outage events reveals the proposed schemes suitability for future 6G networks.

A Systematic Review of Interference Mitigation Techniques in Current and Future UAV-Assisted Wireless Networks

“…In this context, using UAVs associated with the rate-splitting technique holds great potential for addressing the challenges associated with interference mitigation in B5G networks. In a B5G network scenario with UAVs, rate splitting can minimize CCI and boost spectral efficiency, critical attributes for ensuring reliable and high-speed connectivity [111], [112].…”