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Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication is one of the emerging fields today and expected to play a major role in interconnecting various types of devices for different applications, such as logistics. Mobile communication standards, such as Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A), have high data rate capability and are designed to provide broadband services to the human-based communication. M2M devices in logistics usually transmit small amount of data depending on the application scenario. LTE-A can be optimized to provide better performance of M2M devices in logistics. This paper studies a Relay Node (RN) based solution in LTE-A to integrate M2M devices in mobile cellular networks. Different M2M scenarios are developed for logistics along with normal LTE-A users in our LTE-A simulation model implemented in OPNET Modeler. The simulation results show that the data traffic performance of LTE-A network improves significantly if RN is utilized for aggregation and multiplexing of M2M data traffic in logistics.
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This work was supported by International Graduate School for Dynamics in Logistics, University of Bremen, Germany and University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan.
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Ahmad, F., Marwat, S.N.K., Zaki, Y., Mehmood, Y., Görg, C. (2016). Machine-to-Machine Sensor Data Multiplexing Using LTE-Advanced Relay Node for Logistics. In: Kotzab, H., Pannek, J., Thoben, KD. (eds) Dynamics in Logistics. Lecture Notes in Logistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23512-7_24
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