Signal space diversity aided dynamic multiplexing for eMBB and URLLC traffics

Abstract

5G is envisaged to support diverse use cases and applications. Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) and Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communications (URLLC) have been identified as two main communication scenarios in 5G. Unlike eMBB service which demands high data rate, URLLC has stringent latency and reliability requirement. Due to the sporadic and stochastic characteristics of URLLC traffic, an URLLC transmission may suddenly occurs during the transmission of eMBB data. It is sometimes necessary to transmit URLLC data on the resources occupied by eMBB. Thus in this paper, we investigate the dynamic downlink multiplexing for eMBB and URLLC data on the same time/frequency resource. Specifically, we present a dynamical puncturing scheme, which allows URLLC data occupy part of the radio resource that has been scheduled to ongoing eMBB transmission. The puncturing will degrade the performance of the eMBB traffic, therefore we introduce the signal space diversity (SSD) scheme into the proposed dynamic puncturing scheme. The decoding performance of eMBB data over the fading channel is thus improved through the component interleaving and rotation modulation. Furthermore, we derive the optimal rotation angel that can achieve the optimal puncturing performance by maximizing the average mutual information (AMI). The link-level simulation results show that the proposed scheme outperforms existing strategy, and the performance gain is around 1dB when the code rate is set as $2/3$. This observation also validates the theoretical analysis based on the AMI.