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Primary Access Procedures in M2M Networks

Authors:
Abdullah Balcı
Radosveta Sokullu

Keywords: M2M communications; random access procedure; congestion; delay

Abstract:
The immensely increased number of networked devices in the last several years is believed to be only the beginning of a new era of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, where billions of devices will connect over the network and react to events in the environment without human intervention. This emerging technology poses new challenges to the existing connectivity mechanisms. Current network access methods rely on random access (RA) back-off based mechanisms with inherent control of the congestion and the delay. In M2M communications, devices will be sending only very small amounts of data (several bytes so several kilobytes) but their excessive numbers and the possibility that many of them will try to connect simultaneously will cause high collision rate and unacceptable delays. A lot of active research is directed to these subjects and the goal of this paper is to summarize and classify the suggested methods in order to provide a clear picture of the open research issues.

Pages: 84 to 89

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2016

Publication date: October 9, 2016

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4278

ISBN: 978-1-61208-505-0

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from October 9, 2016 to October 13, 2016