Showing papers by "Johan Torsner published in 2021"

Broadcasting Services Over 5G NR Enabled Multi-Beam Non-Terrestrial Networks

Abstract: The era of the fifth-generation (5G) New Radio (NR) technology has just begun, and its promises to substantially improve the system performance have turned into reality. The 5G NR enabled Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN) is almost upon us and will represent an effective solution to provide services anytime, anywhere, and over wider coverage areas. In this context, high throughput satellite systems with advanced multi-beam transmissions have gained significant attention owing to their ability to boost the system capacity through beam frequency re-use, increased user data rates, and system spectral efficiency. In this paper, we propose a novel radio resource management scheme, named Single-Frequency Multi-Beam Transmission (SF-MBT), for efficient delivery of the enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) services over the 5G NR multi-beam NTN systems. The main thinking is to group beams into the dedicated Beam Areas, wherein a certain content flow is delivered via simultaneous multi-beam transmissions over the same radio resources without causing inter-beam interference. A simulation campaign is conducted under different scenarios to assess the effectiveness of the proposed SF-MBT algorithm as compared to the current schemes based on frequency reuse. System-wide performance is evaluated in terms of the aggregate data rate, mean throughput, and system spectral efficiency.

Method and apparatus for error control in telecommunications systems

Abstract: Methods and apparatus for signaling scheduling information in a spatial multiplexing wireless communications system (700), as well as corresponding methods and apparatus for processing such signaling information, are disclosed. An exemplary method for signaling scheduling information comprises scheduling (310, 420) first and second transport blocks (110) for simultaneous transmission during a first transmission interval on first and second data substreams, respectively, and further comprises assigning (320, 430) a single re-transmission process identifier for the first transmission interval and transmitting(330, 440) first scheduling information for the first transmission interval. The first scheduling information comprises the re-transmission process identifier and first disambiguation data. The method further comprises scheduling (360, 470) at least one of the first and second transport blocks (110) for re-transmission during a second transmission interval and transmitting (370, 495) second scheduling information for the second transmission interval, the second scheduling information comprising the re-transmission process identifier and second disambiguation data. The first and second disambiguation data indicate whether the re-transmission of the retransmitted transport block (110) is scheduled for the first or second data substream and may be used by a receiver to determine the same.