Diversity Trade-Offs and Joint Coding Schemes for Highly Reliable Wireless Transmissions
20 March 2017
High reliability and low latency are key requirements for a number of upcoming use cases and applications in mobile communication networks. In order to address the requirements, we present statistical models which capture the most important radio propagation phenomena, such as path loss, shadowing, and small scale fading. The models enable the evaluation of trade-offs between reliability, achievable rate, latency, and bandwidth.
Additionally, extensions for joint channel coding across multiple frequency layers are presented. Numerical evaluations reveal that the antenna configuration has a significant impact on the reliability performance. Further, considerable performance gains of joint coding across multiple frequency layers are observed.