A Novel Random Access Mechanism based on Real-time Access Intensity Detection

Abstract

The Random Access (RA) procedure in 4G LTE serves for the uplink synchronization between UE and eNB and the allocation of the channel resource for data transmission. The existing 4G LTE RA Channel (RACH) lacks the adjustment to the real-time RA traffic and suffers from preamble collision and system congestion caused by the RA request flooding, which will not meet the requirement of ubiquitous and massive connection in 5G. To better improve the system throughput and the RA success probability of RACH in the dense device network, we propose a novel congestion-aware RA mechanism via a two-phase process in which concurrent devices carry out a Real-time Access Intensity Detection (RAID) prior to RA preamble message. In this paper, we develop an analytical model based on stochastic geometry and derive the RA success probability of our proposed model for typical device in single RA slot. The analytical results demonstrate the improvement of our proposed RA mechanism in terms of RA success probability under heavy RA traffic. Furthermore, a large amount of simulations under homogeneous and cluster Poisson Point Process (PPP) is carried out to analyze the performance of the proposed RA mechanism in terms of the system throughput, the RA success probability, the number of retransmission and the RA delay.