Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communications (URLLC) is a challenging class of services to be supported by the fifth generation of mobile networks (5G). Among the URLLC services, many use cases, especially those related to factory automation, involve communications with relatively static radio conditions and a periodic generation of control or data packets. The transmission of these packets requires extremely low latency and ultra-reliable communication to enable realtime control of automation processes. In this paper, we discuss a mechanism of deterministic resource allocation to meet the URLLC requirement in terms of reliability and latency, including initial transmissions and controlled retransmissions. A joint resource allocation and modulation and coding schemes selection is performed so that the resource consumption is minimized, subject to latency and reliability constraints. We show that when applying the proposed resource allocation technique it is possible to achieve very low error rates.

This paper deals with a reduced-complexity per survivor processing-based CPM demodulation. It relies on a trellis with reduced state number and defined from a rational modulation index possibly different from the transmit modulation index and referred to as virtual receiver modulation index. The virtual receiver modulation index should be chosen so as to achieve a tradeoff between error-rate performance and complexity reduction. The main purpose of this paper is the choice of the virtual receiver modulation index. It gives guidelines to discard the values of the virtual receiver modulation index, that degrade the error-rate performance. Two criteria are used. The first one considers the uncoded CPM case and is based on an approximation of the minimal Euclidean distance. The second one is related to the bit interleaved coded CPM case and resorts to an EXIT chart to analyze the convergence of the iterative receiver.

We consider binary continuous phase modulation (CPM) signals used in some recent low-cost and low-power consumption telecommunications standard. When these signals are generated through a low-cost transmitter, the real modulation index can end up being quite different from the nominal value employed at the receiver and a significant performance degradation is observed unless proper techniques for the estimation and compensation are employed. For this reason, we design new binary schemes with a much higher robustness. They are based on the concatenation of a suitable precoder with binary input and a ternary CPM format. The result is a family of CPM formats whose phase state is constrained to follow a specific evolution. Two of these precoders are considered. We will discuss many aspects related to these schemes, such as the power spectral density, the spectral efficiency, simplified detection, the minimum distance, and the uncoded performance. The adopted precoders do not change the recursive nature of CPM schemes. So these schemes are still suited for serial concatenation, through a pseudo-random interleaver, with an outer channel encoder.