An Energy Efficient Uplink Scheduling and Resource Allocation for M2M Communications in SC-FDMA Based LTE-A Networks

Abstract

In future wireless communication, a large number of devices equipped with several different types of sensors will require access networks with diverse quality-of-service constraints. In cellular network evolution, the long term evolution advanced (LTE-A) networks has standardized Machine-to-Machine (M2M) features. Such M2M technology can provide a promising infrastructure for Internet of things (IoT) sensing applications, which usually require real-time data reporting. However, LTE-A is not designed for directly supporting such low-data-rate devices with optimized energy efficiency since it depends on core technologies of LTE that are originally designed for high-data-rate services. This paper investigate the maximum energy efficient data packets M2M transmission with uplink channels in LTE-A network. We formulate it into a joint problem of Modulation-and-Coding Scheme (MCS) assignment, resource allocation and power control, which can be expressed as a non-deterministic polynomial hard (NP-hard) mixed-integer linear fractional programming problem. Then we propose a global optimization scheme with Charnes-Cooper transformation and Glover linearization. The numerical experiment results show that with limited resource blocks, our algorithm can maintain low data packets dropping ratios while achieving optimal energy efficiency for a large number of M2M nodes, comparing with other typical counterparts.