High-Performance Transmission Mechanism Design of Multi-Stream Carrier Aggregation for 5G Non-Standalone Network

TL;DR

This paper introduces a low-complexity traffic splitting algorithm for multi-stream carrier aggregation in 5G networks, significantly improving resource utilization and handling diverse propagation conditions with minimal feedback.

Contribution

It proposes a fuzzy PID-based traffic splitting method that optimizes resource use in hybrid sub-6 GHz and mmWave bands, considering mobility and rate differences.

Findings

Achieves over 90% link resource utilization in simulations

Provides about 10% improvement over conventional methods

Effective in diverse mobility scenarios

Abstract

Multi-stream carrier aggregation is a key technology to expand bandwidth and improve the throughput of the fifth-generation wireless communication systems. However, due to the diversified propagation properties of different frequency bands, the traffic migration task is much more challenging, especially in hybrid sub-6 GHz and millimeter wave bands scenario. Existing schemes either neglected to consider the transmission rate difference between multi-stream carrier, or only consider simple low mobility scenario. In this paper, we propose a low-complexity traffic splitting algorithm based on fuzzy proportional integral derivative control mechanism. The proposed algorithm only relies on the local radio link control buffer information of sub-6 GHz and mmWave bands, while frequent feedback from user equipment (UE) side is minimized. As shown in the numerical examples, the proposed traffic splitting mechanism can achieve more than 90% link resource utilization ratio for different UE transmission requirements with different mobilities, which corresponds to 10% improvement if compared with conventional baselines.