Fast Data Recovery for Improved Mobility Support in Multiradio Dual Connectivity
Data aggregation is one of the crucial features of the 3GPP Multi-Radio Dual Connectivity (MR-DC) technology. However, mobility events and radio link failures, which may occur during the data aggregation, may pose challenges in meeting the latency, reliability, and throughput key performance indicat...
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| description | Data aggregation is one of the crucial features of the 3GPP Multi-Radio Dual Connectivity (MR-DC) technology. However, mobility events and radio link failures, which may occur during the data aggregation, may pose challenges in meeting the latency, reliability, and throughput key performance indicators (KPIs). Unlike single connectivity, the user equipment (UE) in MR-DC operation can experience such events in either of the two base stations (BSs) serving the UE with MR-DC. In typical MR-DC deployments, these events occur more frequently in the BS acting as the secondary node (SN) since the SN operates at a higher frequency band. In this paper, we show that handovers (HOs) and signal blockage events that occur at the SN can create out-of-order data reception or losses at the UE’s Packet Data Control Protocol (PDCP) layer, making the application stop receiving data for up to hundreds of milliseconds. Thus, challenging to meet the KPIs defined for such application. To mitigate this effect, we propose an intelligent and efficient mechanism that operates in the transmitting PDCP layer and significantly minimizes the data interruption periods suffered by the application when the UE aggregates data and HOs or failures of the SN occur. We use LTE/NR testbed experiments to show that the proposed mechanism achieves a high and stable aggregate throughput with near-zero interruption time and data reliability of at least 99.999% without transport layer retransmissions. The experiments are conducted for saturated TCP traffic and under link quality variations based on traces extracted from a Nokia-proprietary system-level simulator. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-52cfa763daff4225a1a4fa83ae9bf39f2022-12-22T04:30:34ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-0110936749369110.1109/ACCESS.2022.32040279875285Fast Data Recovery for Improved Mobility Support in Multiradio Dual ConnectivityCarlos Pupiales0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4921-8724Daniela Laselva1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5028-4548Ilker Demirkol2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8026-5337Department of Network Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, SpainNokia, Aalborg, DenmarkDepartment of Mining, Industrial and ICT Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, SpainData aggregation is one of the crucial features of the 3GPP Multi-Radio Dual Connectivity (MR-DC) technology. However, mobility events and radio link failures, which may occur during the data aggregation, may pose challenges in meeting the latency, reliability, and throughput key performance indicators (KPIs). Unlike single connectivity, the user equipment (UE) in MR-DC operation can experience such events in either of the two base stations (BSs) serving the UE with MR-DC. In typical MR-DC deployments, these events occur more frequently in the BS acting as the secondary node (SN) since the SN operates at a higher frequency band. In this paper, we show that handovers (HOs) and signal blockage events that occur at the SN can create out-of-order data reception or losses at the UE’s Packet Data Control Protocol (PDCP) layer, making the application stop receiving data for up to hundreds of milliseconds. Thus, challenging to meet the KPIs defined for such application. To mitigate this effect, we propose an intelligent and efficient mechanism that operates in the transmitting PDCP layer and significantly minimizes the data interruption periods suffered by the application when the UE aggregates data and HOs or failures of the SN occur. We use LTE/NR testbed experiments to show that the proposed mechanism achieves a high and stable aggregate throughput with near-zero interruption time and data reliability of at least 99.999% without transport layer retransmissions. The experiments are conducted for saturated TCP traffic and under link quality variations based on traces extracted from a Nokia-proprietary system-level simulator.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9875285/SN changeSCG failuremulti-connectivitydual connectivity5Gdata aggregation |
| spellingShingle | Carlos Pupiales Daniela Laselva Ilker Demirkol Fast Data Recovery for Improved Mobility Support in Multiradio Dual Connectivity IEEE Access SN change SCG failure multi-connectivity dual connectivity 5G data aggregation |
| title | Fast Data Recovery for Improved Mobility Support in Multiradio Dual Connectivity |
| title_full | Fast Data Recovery for Improved Mobility Support in Multiradio Dual Connectivity |
| title_fullStr | Fast Data Recovery for Improved Mobility Support in Multiradio Dual Connectivity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Fast Data Recovery for Improved Mobility Support in Multiradio Dual Connectivity |
| title_short | Fast Data Recovery for Improved Mobility Support in Multiradio Dual Connectivity |
| title_sort | fast data recovery for improved mobility support in multiradio dual connectivity |
| topic | SN change SCG failure multi-connectivity dual connectivity 5G data aggregation |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9875285/ |
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