Enhanced Sparse Vector Coding for Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communications

An important observation in the ultra-reliable and low latency communications is that the size of transmit information is tiny. To support the effective short packet transmission, a sparse vector coding (SVC) scheme where an information is encoded into the positions of the sparse vector was proposed. In this paper, we propose a novel SVC technique further improving the reliability of the short packet transmission. Key idea of the proposed technique is to encode information both in the position as well as symbols. From the performance analysis and numerical evaluations on realistic channel models, we demonstrate that the proposed scheme outperforms the conventional SVC scheme in terms of the block error rate (BLER) and transmission latency.