TY - JOUR
T1 - Machine-to-Machine Communications in Ultra-Dense Networks - A Survey
AU - Chen, Shuyi
AU - Ma, Ruofei
AU - Chen, Hsiao Hwa
AU - Zhang, Hong
AU - Meng, Weixiao
AU - Liu, Jiamin
N1 - Funding Information:
Manuscript received November 11, 2015; revised May 1, 2016, October 8, 2016, and February 1, 2017; accepted February 10, 2017. Date of publication March 6, 2017; date of current version August 21, 2017. This work was supported in part by the State Key Laboratory of Wireless Mobile Communications, China Academy of Telecommunications Technology, in part by the Natural Science Foundation General Program of China under Grant 61671186 and Grant 61471143, and in part by the Taiwan Industrial Technology Research Institute under Grant M0-10309-6. (Corresponding author: Hsiao-Hwa Chen.) S. Chen, H. Zhang, and W. Meng are with the Communication Research Center, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, China (e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]).
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PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - To achieve 1000-fold capacity increase in 5G wireless communications, ultradense network (UDN) is believed to be one of the key enabling technologies. Most of the previous research activities on UDNs were based very much on human-to-human communications. However, to provide ubiquitous Internet of Things services, machine-to-machine (M2M) communications will play a critical role in 5G systems. As the number of machine-oriented connections increases, it is expected that supporting M2M communications is an essential requirement in all future UDNs. In this paper, we aim to bridge the gaps between M2M communications and UDNs, which were commonly considered as two separate issues in the literature. The paper begins with a brief introduction on M2M communications and UDNs, and then will discuss the issues on the roles of M2M communications in future UDNs. We will identify different ways to implement M2M communications in the UDNs from the perspectives of layered architecture, including physical, media access control, network, and application layers. Other two important issues, i.e., security and network virtualization, will also be addressed. Before the end of this paper, we will give a summary on identified research topics for future studies.
AB - To achieve 1000-fold capacity increase in 5G wireless communications, ultradense network (UDN) is believed to be one of the key enabling technologies. Most of the previous research activities on UDNs were based very much on human-to-human communications. However, to provide ubiquitous Internet of Things services, machine-to-machine (M2M) communications will play a critical role in 5G systems. As the number of machine-oriented connections increases, it is expected that supporting M2M communications is an essential requirement in all future UDNs. In this paper, we aim to bridge the gaps between M2M communications and UDNs, which were commonly considered as two separate issues in the literature. The paper begins with a brief introduction on M2M communications and UDNs, and then will discuss the issues on the roles of M2M communications in future UDNs. We will identify different ways to implement M2M communications in the UDNs from the perspectives of layered architecture, including physical, media access control, network, and application layers. Other two important issues, i.e., security and network virtualization, will also be addressed. Before the end of this paper, we will give a summary on identified research topics for future studies.
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U2 - 10.1109/COMST.2017.2678518
DO - 10.1109/COMST.2017.2678518
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85029482354
SN - 1553-877X
VL - 19
SP - 1478
EP - 1503
JO - IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
JF - IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials
IS - 3
M1 - 7872441
ER -