In this paper,we investigate the feasibility and performance of the covert communication with a spectrum sharing relay in the finite blocklength regime.Specifically,the relay opportunistically forwards the source'...In this paper,we investigate the feasibility and performance of the covert communication with a spectrum sharing relay in the finite blocklength regime.Specifically,the relay opportunistically forwards the source's messages to the primary receiver or conveys the covert messages to its own receiver via the sharing spectrum,while the warden attempts to detect the transmission.First,we derive a lower bound on the covertness constraint,and the analytical expressions of both the primary average effective covert throughput(AECT)and sum AECT are presented by considering the overall decoding error performance.Then,we formulate two optimization problems to maximize the primary and sum AECT respectively by optimizing the blocklength and the transmit power at the source and the relay.Our examinations show that there exists an optimal blocklength to maximize the primary and sum AECT.Besides,it is revealed that,to maximize the primary AECT,the optimal transmit power of each hop increases as its channel quality deteriorates.Furthermore,in the optimization for maximizing the sum AECT,the optimal transmit power at the source equals to zero when the channel quality from relay to the secondary receiver is not weaker than that from relay to the primary receiver.展开更多
Massive machine type communications(mMTC)have been regarded as promising applications in the future.One main feature of mMTC is short packet communication.Different from traditional long packet communication,short pac...Massive machine type communications(mMTC)have been regarded as promising applications in the future.One main feature of mMTC is short packet communication.Different from traditional long packet communication,short packet communication suffers from transmission rate degradation and a significant error rate is introduced.In this case,traditional resource allocation scheme for mMTC is no longer applicable.In this paper,we explore resource allocation for cellular-based mMTC in the finite blocklength regime.First,to mitigate the load of the base station(BS),we establish a framework for cellularbased mMTC,where MTCGs reuse the resources of cellular users(CUs),aggregate the packets generated by MTCDs,and forward them to the BS.Next,we adopt short packet theory to obtain the minimum required blocklength of a packet that transmits a certain amount of information.Then,by modeling the process of MTCGs-assisted communication as a queuing process,we derive the closed-form expression of the average delay of all MTCDs.Guided by this,we propose a joint power allocation and spectrum sharing scheme to minimize the average delay.Finally,the simulation results verify the correctness of the theoretical results and show that the proposed scheme can reduce the average delay efficiently.展开更多
To support mission-critical applications, such as factory automation and autonomous driving, the ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC) is adopted in the fifth generation (5G) mobile communications network,...To support mission-critical applications, such as factory automation and autonomous driving, the ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC) is adopted in the fifth generation (5G) mobile communications network, which requires high level of reliability and low latency. Naturally, URLLC in the future 6G is expected to have a better capability than its 5G version which poses an unprecedented challenge to us. Fortunately, the potential solution can still be found in the well-known classical Shannon information theory. Since the latency constraint can be represented equivalently by blocklength, channel coding at finite blocklength plays an important role in the theoretic analysis of URLLC. Applying these achievements in rapidly development of massive MIMO techniques gives rise to a new theory on space time exchanging. It tells us that channel coding can also be performed in space domain, since it is capable of providing the same coding rate as that in time domain. This space time exchanging theory points out an exciting and feasible direction for us to further reduce latency in 6G URLLC. .展开更多
This paper investigates the effective capacity of a point-to-point ultra-reliable low latency communication(URLLC)transmission over multiple parallel sub-channels at finite blocklength(FBL)with imperfect channel state...This paper investigates the effective capacity of a point-to-point ultra-reliable low latency communication(URLLC)transmission over multiple parallel sub-channels at finite blocklength(FBL)with imperfect channel state information(CSI).Based on reasonable assumptions and approximations,we derive the effective capacity as a function of the pilot length,decoding error probability,transmit power and the sub-channel number.Then we reveal significant impact of the above parameters on the effective capacity.A closed-form lower bound of the effective capacity is derived and an alternating optimization based algorithm is proposed to find the optimal pilot length and decoding error probability.Simulation results validate our theoretical analysis and show that the closedform lower bound is very tight.In addition,through the simulations of the optimized effective capacity,insights for pilot length and decoding error probability optimization are provided to evaluate the optimal parameters in realistic systems.展开更多
In blockchain-based unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)communication systems,the length of a block affects the performance of the blockchain.The transmission performance of blocks in the form of finite character segments is ...In blockchain-based unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)communication systems,the length of a block affects the performance of the blockchain.The transmission performance of blocks in the form of finite character segments is also affected by the block length.Therefore,it is crucial to balance the transmission performance and blockchain performance of blockchain communication systems,especially in wireless environments involving UAVs.This paper investigates a secure transmission scheme for blocks in blockchain-based UAV communication systems to prevent the information contained in blocks from being completely eavesdropped during transmission.In our scheme,using a friendly jamming UAV to emit jamming signals diminishes the quality of the eavesdropping channel,thus enhancing the communication security performance of the source UAV.Under the constraints of maneuverability and transmission power of the UAV,the joint design of UAV trajectories,transmission power,and block length are proposed to maximize the average minimum secrecy rate(AMSR).Since the optimization problem is non-convex and difficult to solve directly,we first decompose the optimization problem into subproblems of trajectory optimization,transmission power optimization,and block length optimization.Then,based on firstorder approximation techniques,these subproblems are reformulated as convex optimization problems.Finally,we utilize an alternating iteration algorithm based on the successive convex approximation(SCA)technique to solve these subproblems iteratively.The simulation results demonstrate that our proposed scheme can achieve secure transmission for blocks while maintaining the performance of the blockchain.展开更多
The uplink massive multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO)status update system is very concerned about information freshness performance,especially for some central control Internet of Things(IoT)applications.In this con...The uplink massive multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO)status update system is very concerned about information freshness performance,especially for some central control Internet of Things(IoT)applications.In this context,age of information(AoI),as the metric of information freshness,gets more and more recognition,and simultaneously,the status packet blocklength plays an important role in improving the information freshness.In this work,we firstly consider a case with perfect channel state information(CSI)at the base station(BS),and derive the closed-form expression of the average AoI by using the Shannon theory.Guided by this,we obtain the tradeoff relationship among the status packet blocklength,transmission time and transmission failure probability.Accordingly,we optimize the status packet blocklength to minimize the average AoI.Then,we consider a more practical case with finite blocklength and imperfect CSI at the BS.In this case,we exploit pilot sequence to assist channel estimation,and derive an approximated closed-form expression of the average AoI according to short packet communication theory.It is found that increasing pilot block-length can improve the accuracy of channel estimation but reduce the frequency of status updates.Hence,we jointly optimize the pilot blocklength and status packet blocklength to improve the AoI performance.Extensive simulation results validate that the proposed methods can achieve almost the same performance as the exhaustive search methods.展开更多
The emergence of massive ultra-reliable and low latency communications (mURLLC) as a category of age/time/reliability-sensitive service over 6G wireless networks has received considerable research attention, which has...The emergence of massive ultra-reliable and low latency communications (mURLLC) as a category of age/time/reliability-sensitive service over 6G wireless networks has received considerable research attention, which has presented unprecedented challenges. As one of the key enablers for 6G,satellite-terrestrial integrated networks (STIN) have been developed to offer more expansive connectivity and comprehensive 3D coverage in space-aerial-terrestrial domains for supporting 6G mission-critical mURLLC applications while fulfilling diverse and rigorous quality of service (QoS) requirements. In the context of these mURLLC-driven satellite services, data freshness assumes paramount importance, as outdated data may engender unpredictable or catastrophic outcomes.To effectively measure data freshness in satellite-terrestrial integrated communications,age of information(AoI)has recently surfaced as a new dimension of QoS metric to support time-sensitive applications. It is crucial to design new analytical models that ensure stringent and diverse QoS metrics bounded by different key parameters,including AoI,delay,and reliability,over 6G satellite-terrestrial integrated networks. However,due to the complicated and dynamic nature of satellite-terrestrial integrated network environments, the research on efficiently defining new statistical QoS provisioning schemes while taking into account varying degrees of freedom has still been in their infancy. To remedy these deficiencies, in this paper we develop statistical QoS provisioning schemes over 6G satellite-terrestrial integrated networks in the finite blocklength regime. Particularly, we firstly introduce and review key technologies for supporting mURLLC.Secondly,we formulate a number of novel fundamental statistical-QoS metrics in the finite blocklength regime.Finally,we conduct a set of simulations to validate and evaluate our developed statistical QoS provisioning schemes over satellite-terrestrial integrated networks.展开更多
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.62071486)Natural Science Foundation on Frontier Leading Technology Basic Research Project of Jiangsu Province,China(BK20212001)Key Research and Development Program of Jiangsu Province Key Project and Topics,China(2019B010157001)。
文摘In this paper,we investigate the feasibility and performance of the covert communication with a spectrum sharing relay in the finite blocklength regime.Specifically,the relay opportunistically forwards the source's messages to the primary receiver or conveys the covert messages to its own receiver via the sharing spectrum,while the warden attempts to detect the transmission.First,we derive a lower bound on the covertness constraint,and the analytical expressions of both the primary average effective covert throughput(AECT)and sum AECT are presented by considering the overall decoding error performance.Then,we formulate two optimization problems to maximize the primary and sum AECT respectively by optimizing the blocklength and the transmit power at the source and the relay.Our examinations show that there exists an optimal blocklength to maximize the primary and sum AECT.Besides,it is revealed that,to maximize the primary AECT,the optimal transmit power of each hop increases as its channel quality deteriorates.Furthermore,in the optimization for maximizing the sum AECT,the optimal transmit power at the source equals to zero when the channel quality from relay to the secondary receiver is not weaker than that from relay to the primary receiver.
基金supported by the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Fund for Outstanding Young Scholars(No.BK20180028)the Natural Science Foundations of China(No.61671474,No.61771487)the Jiangsu Provincial Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars(No.BK20170089).
文摘Massive machine type communications(mMTC)have been regarded as promising applications in the future.One main feature of mMTC is short packet communication.Different from traditional long packet communication,short packet communication suffers from transmission rate degradation and a significant error rate is introduced.In this case,traditional resource allocation scheme for mMTC is no longer applicable.In this paper,we explore resource allocation for cellular-based mMTC in the finite blocklength regime.First,to mitigate the load of the base station(BS),we establish a framework for cellularbased mMTC,where MTCGs reuse the resources of cellular users(CUs),aggregate the packets generated by MTCDs,and forward them to the BS.Next,we adopt short packet theory to obtain the minimum required blocklength of a packet that transmits a certain amount of information.Then,by modeling the process of MTCGs-assisted communication as a queuing process,we derive the closed-form expression of the average delay of all MTCDs.Guided by this,we propose a joint power allocation and spectrum sharing scheme to minimize the average delay.Finally,the simulation results verify the correctness of the theoretical results and show that the proposed scheme can reduce the average delay efficiently.
文摘To support mission-critical applications, such as factory automation and autonomous driving, the ultra-reliable low latency communications (URLLC) is adopted in the fifth generation (5G) mobile communications network, which requires high level of reliability and low latency. Naturally, URLLC in the future 6G is expected to have a better capability than its 5G version which poses an unprecedented challenge to us. Fortunately, the potential solution can still be found in the well-known classical Shannon information theory. Since the latency constraint can be represented equivalently by blocklength, channel coding at finite blocklength plays an important role in the theoretic analysis of URLLC. Applying these achievements in rapidly development of massive MIMO techniques gives rise to a new theory on space time exchanging. It tells us that channel coding can also be performed in space domain, since it is capable of providing the same coding rate as that in time domain. This space time exchanging theory points out an exciting and feasible direction for us to further reduce latency in 6G URLLC. .
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant 61941106。
文摘This paper investigates the effective capacity of a point-to-point ultra-reliable low latency communication(URLLC)transmission over multiple parallel sub-channels at finite blocklength(FBL)with imperfect channel state information(CSI).Based on reasonable assumptions and approximations,we derive the effective capacity as a function of the pilot length,decoding error probability,transmit power and the sub-channel number.Then we reveal significant impact of the above parameters on the effective capacity.A closed-form lower bound of the effective capacity is derived and an alternating optimization based algorithm is proposed to find the optimal pilot length and decoding error probability.Simulation results validate our theoretical analysis and show that the closedform lower bound is very tight.In addition,through the simulations of the optimized effective capacity,insights for pilot length and decoding error probability optimization are provided to evaluate the optimal parameters in realistic systems.
基金supported in part by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant 2022YFB3104503in part by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant 2024M750199+1 种基金in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 62202054,62002022 and 62472251in part by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant BLX202360.
文摘In blockchain-based unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)communication systems,the length of a block affects the performance of the blockchain.The transmission performance of blocks in the form of finite character segments is also affected by the block length.Therefore,it is crucial to balance the transmission performance and blockchain performance of blockchain communication systems,especially in wireless environments involving UAVs.This paper investigates a secure transmission scheme for blocks in blockchain-based UAV communication systems to prevent the information contained in blocks from being completely eavesdropped during transmission.In our scheme,using a friendly jamming UAV to emit jamming signals diminishes the quality of the eavesdropping channel,thus enhancing the communication security performance of the source UAV.Under the constraints of maneuverability and transmission power of the UAV,the joint design of UAV trajectories,transmission power,and block length are proposed to maximize the average minimum secrecy rate(AMSR).Since the optimization problem is non-convex and difficult to solve directly,we first decompose the optimization problem into subproblems of trajectory optimization,transmission power optimization,and block length optimization.Then,based on firstorder approximation techniques,these subproblems are reformulated as convex optimization problems.Finally,we utilize an alternating iteration algorithm based on the successive convex approximation(SCA)technique to solve these subproblems iteratively.The simulation results demonstrate that our proposed scheme can achieve secure transmission for blocks while maintaining the performance of the blockchain.
文摘The uplink massive multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO)status update system is very concerned about information freshness performance,especially for some central control Internet of Things(IoT)applications.In this context,age of information(AoI),as the metric of information freshness,gets more and more recognition,and simultaneously,the status packet blocklength plays an important role in improving the information freshness.In this work,we firstly consider a case with perfect channel state information(CSI)at the base station(BS),and derive the closed-form expression of the average AoI by using the Shannon theory.Guided by this,we obtain the tradeoff relationship among the status packet blocklength,transmission time and transmission failure probability.Accordingly,we optimize the status packet blocklength to minimize the average AoI.Then,we consider a more practical case with finite blocklength and imperfect CSI at the BS.In this case,we exploit pilot sequence to assist channel estimation,and derive an approximated closed-form expression of the average AoI according to short packet communication theory.It is found that increasing pilot block-length can improve the accuracy of channel estimation but reduce the frequency of status updates.Hence,we jointly optimize the pilot blocklength and status packet blocklength to improve the AoI performance.Extensive simulation results validate that the proposed methods can achieve almost the same performance as the exhaustive search methods.
基金supported by the Key Area Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province under Grant 2020B0101110003in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62341132+2 种基金the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2021YFC3002102the Key Research and Development Plan of Shaanxi Province under Grant 2022ZDLGY05-09the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi under Grant 2024JC-YBQN-0642.
文摘The emergence of massive ultra-reliable and low latency communications (mURLLC) as a category of age/time/reliability-sensitive service over 6G wireless networks has received considerable research attention, which has presented unprecedented challenges. As one of the key enablers for 6G,satellite-terrestrial integrated networks (STIN) have been developed to offer more expansive connectivity and comprehensive 3D coverage in space-aerial-terrestrial domains for supporting 6G mission-critical mURLLC applications while fulfilling diverse and rigorous quality of service (QoS) requirements. In the context of these mURLLC-driven satellite services, data freshness assumes paramount importance, as outdated data may engender unpredictable or catastrophic outcomes.To effectively measure data freshness in satellite-terrestrial integrated communications,age of information(AoI)has recently surfaced as a new dimension of QoS metric to support time-sensitive applications. It is crucial to design new analytical models that ensure stringent and diverse QoS metrics bounded by different key parameters,including AoI,delay,and reliability,over 6G satellite-terrestrial integrated networks. However,due to the complicated and dynamic nature of satellite-terrestrial integrated network environments, the research on efficiently defining new statistical QoS provisioning schemes while taking into account varying degrees of freedom has still been in their infancy. To remedy these deficiencies, in this paper we develop statistical QoS provisioning schemes over 6G satellite-terrestrial integrated networks in the finite blocklength regime. Particularly, we firstly introduce and review key technologies for supporting mURLLC.Secondly,we formulate a number of novel fundamental statistical-QoS metrics in the finite blocklength regime.Finally,we conduct a set of simulations to validate and evaluate our developed statistical QoS provisioning schemes over satellite-terrestrial integrated networks.
