An Intelligent Deterministic D2D Communication in Narrow-band Internet of Things

To enable the internet of things (IoT) devices with increased coverage and optimized power consumption, the 3rd generation partnership (3GPP) standardizes the idea of narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) technology in the fifth generation (5G) of cellular communication. Re-transmission of control and data packets due to a poor link between user equipment (UE) and the base station (BS), is considered as one of the key feature in NB-IoT to ensure the data delivery of delay-sensitive applications, e.g. ambulance services and body sensor networks (BSN). This phenomenon degrades the energy efficiency of the already resource constrained systems. One key solution for NB-IoT UE is to exploit the device-to-device (D2D) communication using two hops instead of transmitting on a direct uplink, due to which the system performance increases. In an attempt to transmit the NB-IoT UE uplink data packet, splendid researchers have focused towards developing a D2D communication based strategy, which typically optimizes the expected packet delivery ratio (EDR) and end-to-end delay (EED) through an opportunistic method. However, such methodology imposes an additional delay due to the unavailability of active relaying nodes and increases the overall energy consumption of the system. This necessitates us to design an intelligent deterministic D2D (2D2D) relay selection strategy for delay sensitive NB-IoT UEs. The EDR and EED have been improved using deterministic programming based algorithm. Simulations with various parameters are carried out, and results are presented. Simulation results show that the deterministic algorithm gives better performance with a 10% increase in EDR and overcomes the additional delay.