Retransmission Aware Adaptive Modulation and Coding Toward Deterministic Delay Performance

doi:10.1109/TWC.2024.3456188

Retransmission Aware Adaptive Modulation and Coding Toward Deterministic Delay Performance

2024-11-01

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Ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) is an indispensable element towards supporting various latency-sensitive and reliability-critical applications. To optimize the average delay while satisfying the deterministic delay constraint, initial transmission and retransmission should be handled with different priorities due to the differentiated urgency, which creates complex interdependency and brings new technical challenges to delay-oriented optimization. In this paper, we propose a retransmission-aware adaptive modulation and coding (RAMC) scheme to improve the delay performance in URLLC scenarios. Specifically, we first establish a cascaded queue system, including an initial transmission queue and a retransmission queue. The deterministic delay constraint is satisfied through Lyapunov optimization, where we transform the Lyapunov drift-plus-penalty problem into an infinite horizon Markov decision process (MDP) by constructing a renewal system with sampling to overcome the challenge brought by queue coupling. Next, we propose the delay-optimal RAMC scheme by solving the associated Bellman equation by improved reinforcement learning, which is proved to be asymptotically optimal. Finally, the superiority of the proposed RAMC scheme is verified through simulations.

Keywords:

Delays

Optimization

Ultra reliable low latency communication

Throughput

Modulation

Couplings

Signal to noise ratio

URLLC

deterministic delay constraint

adaptive modulation and coding

data retransmission

Retransmission Aware Adaptive Modulation and Coding Toward Deterministic Delay Performance

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