Joint real-time scheduling and interference coordination for wireless factory automation

The fifth generation of wireless communication is expected to enable various new use cases that today's wireless communication systems are not able to support. One of these use cases is mission-critical machine-type communication (C-MTC) for automation processes in factory environments. The real-time requirements including firm deadlines for such communication impose very low latency and high reliability demands that can currently only be fulfilled by wired solutions. In this paper, we focus on the radio resource management aspect to enable C-MTC in the context of a factory automation scenario by proposing a joint real-time scheduling and interference coordination approach that supports low latency communication while provisioning radio resources for very high reliability.

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