Network Slicing for URLLC and eMBB With Max-Matching Diversity Channel Allocation

This work considers the problem of radio resource sharing between enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB) and ultra-reliable and low latency communications (URLLC), two heterogeneous 5G services. More specifically, we propose the use of a max-matching diversity (MMD) algorithm to properly allocate the channels to the eMBB users, considering both heterogeneous orthogonal multiple access (H-OMA) and heterogeneous non-orthogonal multiple access (H-NOMA) network slicing strategies. Our results indicate that MMD can simultaneously improve the eMBB achievable rate and the URLLC reliability regardless the network slicing strategy adopted.

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