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Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

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    • A Survey of Positioning Technology for 5G
    • ZHANG Ping, CHEN Hao
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 1-12. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-185
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    • Seamless wide-area coverage, high-capacity hot-spot, low-power massive-connections and low-latency high-reliability are the four major technical scenarios of the fifth generation of mobile communications system(5G). The location information of the mobile terminal is not only the demand of new services, but also effectively meets the key challenges faced by 5G new services in terms of traffic density, number of connections, ultra-low latency, high reliability, and high mobility. A survey of positioning technology oriented to 5G is given by analyzing the main directions involved in positioning. Firstly, starting from the demand of 5G technical scenarios, the research progress of existing positioning technology for 5G demand is introduced. After the classification of positioning method, the 5G technologies that are good for localization is summarized. Finally, the challenges of 5G mobile station positioning are analyzed, and the future research directions are given.
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    • Analysis of eMTC for 5G mMTC Scenarios
    • WEN Xiang-ming, PAN Qi, LU Zhao-ming, JING Wen-peng, LI Lin-pei
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 13-19. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-164
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    • In order to clarify the enhanced machine type communications (eMTC) proposed by the third generation partnership project (3GPP), the improvements of eMTC for support of 5G mMTC scenarios were summarized. Key technologies were discussed and analyzed in terms of system cost and complexity, coverage and power consumption. Besides, the main technical enhancements of eMTC in Rel-14 were introduced. Finally, the future development trend for eMTC was also be interpreted and analyzed based on present existing problems.
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    REVIEW

    • Analysis of Key Technologies of 5G-Oriented Cellular Internet of Things
    • YI Zhi-ling, CUI Chun-feng, HAN Shuang-feng, PAN Cheng-kang, CHEN Ya-mi
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 20-25. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-192
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    • The technical status of cellular Internet of Things (C-IoT) was discussed. Two C-IoT deployment schemes were proposed in terms of enhanced machine-type communication and narrowband IoT technical standards, which can be readily deployed in the current commercial networks. And an evolutionary roadmap to the fifth generation of mobile communications system (5G) for C-IoT was further proposed. The roadmap fully took into account the key enabling technologies, such as the network function virtualization, the software defined network, the mobile edge computing and the big data analytics, as well as security risks introduced by 5G. The technology challenges and potential solutions were analyzed in detail, and it was shown that 5G C-IoT can significantly enhance C-IoT's service capability.
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    Review

    • Overview on the Progress of Design and Standardization of the Fifth Generation of Mobile Communications System
    • SUN Shao-hui, GAO Qiu-bin, DU Ying, LIU Xiao-feng, AI Ming
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 26-43. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-195
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    • With the continuous development of information technology, the key technology and system design of the fifth generation of mobile communications system (5G) has become a hotspot in both academia and industry. A complete overview of 5G design and standardization progress,including thekey performance index (KPI) of 5G was provided,the work plan of international standardization organization on 5G,and 5G design based on 3GPP R15. Specifically,the key technology of physical layer,the protocol stack and procedure of air interface,the radio access network architecture and interface design,the key technology and architecture of core network were introduced and analyzed. We try to provide a whole picture of 5G design,from radio access network to core network. Therefore, a clear understanding of the overall design ideas, solutions and features of 5G technology, as well as the 5G standardized contents can be achieved.
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    • Latest Progress on 5G NR Trial of Enhanced Mobile Broad Band
    • LIU Guang-yi, ZHENG Yi, WANG Fei, LIU Jian-jun, WANG Qi-xing
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 44-51. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-206
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    • As the Release 15 of the fifth generation of mobile system (5G) frozen in June 2018 by 3rd generation partner project (3GPP), the industrialization of 5G system is being accelerated for commercial launch towards 2020. As the next step of the production of 5G system, it is needed to validate if the 5G specifications can meet the minimum performance requirements defined by 3GPP. Based on the latest 5G specifications, a prototype of 5G new radio (NR) base station was designed and developed, and the field trial of enhanced mobile broad band (eMBB) was conducted in the typical urban scenarios. The key performance indicators were validated against the minimum requirements of peak throughput, cell throughput, coverage and latency. The results proved that the 5G prototype can fulfil the minimum requirements of 5G system defined by 3GPP.
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    • Wireless Big Data Enabled Emerging Technologies for Beyond 5G System
    • ZHANG Si-hai, ZHANG Jian-hua, CHEN Ying, ZHU Jin-kang
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 52-61. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-258
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    • The fifth generation of mobile communications system (5G) will be deployed in 2020 and provide diverse communication capabilities, but the promising future of beyond 5G is surely necessary for the communication requirements incurred by fast growing information technology in the next decade. Among several roadmaps toward beyond 5G, wireless big data (WBD) plus artificial intelligence (AI) based communication technology, which covers physical layer, network layer and application layer, is considered as one of the most promising ways. Along with this thought, some emerging research works have been published, which further stimulate more researcher to pay more attention in this area. This paper introduces three interesting works toward this aim, which covers channel modelling, huge access, and network topology design. The channel modelling part starts with the feasible ways to apply machine learning to wireless channel modelling, and presents the prevailing methods in parameter estimation, channel multipath clustering, which is of great importance for future research. The huge access part focuses on fractal phenomenon and its possible applications in wireless networks. After introducing the basic concept, this part investigates the maximum capacity fractal D2D social networks. The network topology design part proposes an interesting topic, whose motivation is to utilize the dynamic mobility features of mobile users to decrease the wireless resource consumption in ultra dense networks (UDN). In summary, these three works are considered as promising topics in beyond 5G, which combines wireless big data analysis and may shed light on related future research.
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    • Overview on IMT-2020 Channel Model Standard
    • TIAN Lei, ZHANG Jian-hua
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 62-68. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-211
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    • Wireless channel model, as the baseline in the technology evaluation, is very complex. To support the demand of the fifth generation of mobile communications system (5G) technology evaluation, the main characteristics and simulation method of the 5G channel model in the standard are introduced, comparing with the the fourth generation of mobile communications system channel model delivered by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), including scenario configuration, simulation procedure, and advanced channel components, etc. Hence, a detailed understanding of ITU 5G channel model has been made for the readers, in order to improve the further simulation and evaluation of 5G technology, as well as subsequent research and development.
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    • A Review on Physical Layer Security Techniques for 5G
    • REN Pin-yi, TANG Xiao
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 69-77. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-205
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    • Physical layer security techniques exploit the inherent randomness of wireless medium for information security, but which has been significantly challenged by the rapid development and evolvement of the fifth generation of mobile communications system (5G). The research and application of physical layer security techniques in 5G wireless networks was reviewed from three aspects:the joint investigation of physical layer security techniques and the new transmission techniques, the security enhancement schemes under emerging network scenarios, and the countermeasure design against the new threats in 5G wireless networks. Based on the survey of the latest researches in these areas, the open issues and future research directions were discussed.
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    Papers

    • Research and Implementation of Service Oriented 5G Core Network Slice Management System
    • MA Lu, WANG Lu-han, CHEN Wei, WEN Xiang-ming, WANG Shao-chun
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 78-85. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-165
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    • A slicing framework of a service oriented the fifth generation of mobile communications system(5G) is proposed. Furthermore, a prototype verification platform for slicing orchestration and management is designed and implemented. Through the simple and general testbed based on software defined network and network function virtualization, the resource sharing among various vendors and operators and the dynamic monitoring can be implemented. The tenants can get on-demand customization and guaranteed service on the top of common infrastructure.
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    • The Architecture Design of Cooperated Deployment for Multi-Access Edge Computing in 5G
    • CHEN Xin, WEN Xiang-ming, WANG Lu-han, LU Zhao-ming
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 86-91,97. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-169
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    • A novel architecture of cooperated deployment for multi-access edge computing (MEC) was proposed to integrate the radio access networks and core networks. It makes full use of container technology and micro-service to implement the agile deployment scheme. MEC traffic flow is recognized and forwarded efficiently with a modified the protocol stack of data plane in base stations. Moreover, the intelligent domain name system was introduced to handle cooperated task allocation of MEC among multiple network elements. According to the results of practical experiments, the proposed architecture may allocate appropriate MEC processing nodes to specific tasks in line with their characteristics to reduce the delay and enhance the scalability. It provides better performance for low-latency scenarios in the fifth generation of mobile communications system(5G) compared with standalone deployment and traditional task allocation approaches.
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    • Study on 5G Incremental Redundancy HARQ Transmission Strategy
    • ZHANG Rui, ZHU Min, ZHANG Ji, FENG Dan, BAI Bao-ming
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 92-97. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-161
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    • Based on the hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmission strategy, an incremental redundancy HARQ (IR-HARQ) retransmission scheme with flexible retransmission location suitable for the fifth generation of mobile communications system (5G) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes was proposed. Compared with the existed scheme in 5G standard, this new transmission scheme has low decoding complexity and decoding delay for the same transmission length. Simulation results also showed that the proposed IR-HARQ scheme outperformed the 5G HARQ retransmission scheme over the additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel with different modulation constellations and different transmission code rates.
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    • Analysis and Research on the Probabilistic Delay Constraint and Resource Reservation for URLLC Traffic
    • GAO Yue-hong, LI Lan, ZHANG Xin, YANG Hong-wen
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 98-102. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-155
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    • The delay guarantee of ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) traffic under resource reservation policy was analyzed when both URLLC traffic and enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) traffic co-exist in the fifth generation of mobile communications system (5G) system. The impact on eMBB traffic's quality of service was also analyzed. Based on the stochastic network calculus theory, the needed resource reservation ratio for URLLC traffic with probabilistic delay constraint requirement was investigated. Specifically, a minimum threshold, meeting this delay requirement for URLLC traffic, was derived. In addition, the delay performance of eMBB traffic was also analyzed. The results showed that, when the system resource was fixed, the delay distribution of eMBB traffic would be influenced by the amount of resource reserved for URLLC traffic, and the deteriorate level greatly depended on the reservation ratio.
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    • Hierarchical Invulnerability Topology Construction Method for IoT System
    • CHEN Wen-bai, CUI Xiao-li, HAO Cui, WANG Wen-kai
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 103-109,114. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-172
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    • To enhance the system topology vulnerability caused by the failure of critical nodes in the Internet of Things (IoT) system based complex application environments, a construction method of the survivable k-connected topology is proposed. Firstly, all nodes of network system are classified into non-overlapping clusters. Then, the cut points existed in the network are detected, and the cut point centered a local k-connected topology is constructed by use of the motion of the cluster head nodes, so that the critical nodes can be effectively removed to improve the network survivability. Finally, all the cluster head nodes are selected to form the backbone network which also acts as the global inter-cluster k-connected topology. The proposed method is evaluated by the simulation in an IoT-based intelligent monitoring system. The results proves the feasibility and validity of the proposed method in terms of the betweeness centrality of nodes, the network average connectivity and the network robustness.
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    • A Random Access Scheme Based on Sub-Preambles for IoT Systems
    • GUO Bo-ren, ZHANG Xin, YANG Hong-wen
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 110-114. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-175
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    • A random access (RA) scheme based on sub-preambles is proposed to reduce average RA delay and improve RA success ratio for internet of thing (IoT) systems. Specifically, novel sub-preamble considering frequency division multiple access is designed. The sub-preambles are used to increase the number of available preamble sequences, so that preamble collision probability is reduced. Further, a RA scheme using sub-preambles is presented. However, the proposed RA scheme will alleviate the waste of resources caused by preamble collision. Compared with several RA schemes, simulation results show that the proposed approach can effectively reduce average delay and increase success ratio.
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    • An Optimization Algorithm for BBU Load Balancing in C-RAN
    • WANG Ya-xin, YANG Da-cheng
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 115-119. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-242
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    • Cloud radio access network (C-RAN) based on software defined radio (SDR) and virtual machine (VM) migration is a flexible architecture in the fifth generation of mobile communications system (5G). Based on the system model, we propose an optimization algorithm to choose the best base band unit (BBU) working load instead of configuring it as a constant value according to experience. The switching quality is also introduced to control the extra resource cost caused by the switching process. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can calculate the optimized working range for each BBU and keep the BBUs working in optimized range with low switching costs.
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    • Research on Performance of Best Relay Based NOMA System with Multi-User
    • LI Mei-ling, TIAN Li-li, WANG An-hong, LU Zhao-ming, LIANG Jie
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 120-125. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-173
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    • Considering the multi-user and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system, a multi-user and best relay NOMA system with full-duplex decode-and-forward was proposed. A best relay selection scheme was further proposed to maximize the achievable target user's information rate via max-min criterion. Then, the target user's outage probability was analyzed, and the closed-form expression was also given. The simulation results showed that, the advantage of the proposed best relay selection scheme was related with the number of users and the transmit power of the relay without regard to the optimal users' order. However, if the optimal users' order was taken into account, the best performance can be always be achieved by the proposed best relay selection scheme.
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    • Low-Cost Topology Control under Network Connectivity Constraint
    • XU Meng-meng, XU Heng-zhou, ZHU Hai, WANG Bao-feng
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 126-130. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-186
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    • In order to achieve the tradeoff between network cost and network connectivity, two heuristic algorithms for topology control, which are based on link addition and link removal, respectively, are proposed. Each link's weight in the topology optimization is calculated by employing the theory of algebraic connectivity and introducing a new topology metric for each wireless link. The proposed algorithms add or delete a link according to its weight. We conceive some cost functions for different network scenarios. Simulations show that our proposed algorithms could generate the low-cost topologies under the network connectivity constraint.
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    Reports

    • Research on Fault Tracing Technology for 5G Mass Network Management Data
    • CHEN Mo, JIN Lei, GONG Xiang-yang, MAN Yi
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 131-136,142. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-193
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    • Aiming at solving the problem of difficult traceability of mass network management data and large redundancy of correlation mining in the fifth generation of mobile communications system (5G) environment, sequential alarm correlation mining algorithm based on network topology was proposed by combining with the time constraint, sliding time window and classification hierarchy technology, which effectively reduced candidate sets, and realized the efficiently compressing and rapidly tracing the mass network management data. Simulation verified that the improved candidate set of fault tracing had actual correlation in topology, which was more effective and reliable than other correlation algorithms.
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    • Performance Analysis of GSM-MBM Based Wireless Energy Harvesting Cooperative System
    • JIN Xiao-ping, YANG Ling-ling, JIN Ning, LI Zheng-quan
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 137-142. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-188
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    • To improve the efficiency in information transmission of the wireless energy harvesting (SWIPT) spatial modulation cooperative system, an improved signal processing method of the system relay is discussed and a wireless energy harvesting system based on generalized spatial modulation-media based modulation (GSM-MBM) is proposed accordingly. In the system, radio frequency mirrors are placed around transmit antenna elements to create distinct channel perturbations, which is specifically referred to as mirror activation patterns to carry additional information bits. Specifically, the system transmission rate and the average pairwise error probability and energy consumption gain are derived and the accuracy of the analytical derivations is verified by Monte Carlo simulations. The results show that in the proposed scheme, not only the transmission rate is improved, but also the bit error rate and energy consumption are decreased compared with single input multiple output-media based modulation-SWIPT, spatial modulation-media based modulation-SWIPT. The bit error rate is slightly higher that of the spatial modulation-SWIPT system under the same transmission rate. However, the required number of transmit antennas is largely reduced, so that the hardware complexity, form factor and cost are reduced.
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    • Cloud Radio Access Network System and Implementation for 5G Seamless Connection
    • WANG Zi-fan, WEN Xiang-ming, CHEN Ya-wen, LU Zhao-ming, CHANG Dong-xu
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 143-148,158. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-177
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    • Based on the flexible function splitting ability of cloud radio access network (C-RAN), a C-RAN architecture of seamless connection was presented for the fifth generation of mobile communications system (5G). Then the demonstration platform of the proposed C-RAN architecture was built based on OpenAirInterface, which is an open source virtualization enabled software-defined radio system. The built C-RAN demonstration platform realized all the communication function of standard 5G, which can not only connect the virtualized core network, but also support efficient and seamless connection of user equipment. This demonstration platform has high scalability, so that it can be continuously updated according to the new demand and application scenario of 5G.
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    • Hybrid Beamforming Based on OMP Algorithm for Massive MIMO Systems
    • CHENG Zhen-qiao, WEI Zai-xue, YHANG Hong-wen
    • Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications. 2018, 41(5): 153-158. DOI:10.13190/j.jbupt.2018-194
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    • In order to achieve reliable communication with low time overhead and hardware cost in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, hybrid beamforming based on orthogonal matching pursuit algorithm(OMP) is implemented, and low-overhead hardware constraint is considered. The performance of the hybrid beamforming system with the number of radio frequency(RF) chains and the accuracy of shifters is studied. And compare it with the performance of digital beamforming. The simulation results show that the performance of hybrid beamforming can approach the performance of digital beamforming system with less RF links and lower phase shifter accuracy.
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