Flexible Functional Split for Processing Sharing and CoMP-Enhanced Mixed eMBB/URLLC Services in Beyond 5G Wireless Networks

Abstract

With explosively escalating service demands, beyond fifth generation (B5G) aims to realize various requirements for multi-service networks, i.e., mixed enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) services. To flexibly serve diverse traffic, various functional split options (FSOs) are specified by B5G protocols enabling different network functions. In order to improve signal qualities for edge users, we consider FSO-based coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission as a prominent technique capable of supporting high traffic demands. However, due to conventional confined hardware processing capability, a processing sharing (PS) model is introduced to deal with high latency for multi-service FSO-based networks. Therefore, it becomes essential to assign CoMP-enhanced functional split modes under PS model. A more tractable FSO-based network in terms of ergodic rate and reliability is derived by stochastic geometry approach. Moreover, we have proposed CoMP-enhanced functional split mode allocation (CFSMA) scheme to adaptively assign FSOs to provide enhanced mixed URLLC-eMBB services. The simulation results have validated analytical derivation and demonstrated that the proposed CFSMA scheme optimizes system spectrum efficiency while guaranteeing stringent latency requirement.