Statistical Delay and Error-Rate Bounded QoS Provisioning Over Massive-MIMO Based 6G Mobile Wireless Networks

The sixth generation (6G) mobile wireless networks are expected to provide a wide range of massive ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (mURLLC) for multimedia transmissions, which require extremely stringent delay and error-rate bounded quality of services (QoS). Massive multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) communication has been recognized as one of the promising techniques to support mURLLC thanks to its advantages in the beamforming gain and spatial multiplexing, etc. On the other hand, finite blocklength coding (FBC) based small packets communication technique has recently shown to be able to support the statistical delay and error-rate bounded QoS provisioning. However, how to achieve the statistical delay and error-rate bounded QoS provisioning through massive MIMO techniques has not been sufficiently studied. In this paper, we propose to apply the epsilon-effective capacity into massive MIMO communications to achieve the statistical delay and error-rate bounded provisioning for mURLLC traffic transmissions. First, we develop the FBC based scheme over a Nakagami-m fading wireless channel. Then, using the developed FBC based system model, we derive a closed-form expression for epsilon-effective capacity of massive MIMO communications, representing the maximum packet's arrival rate that a wireless channel can support under a given stringency of delay requirement and a constrained decoding error-rate. Finally, we use numerical analyses to validate and evaluate our proposed statistical delay and error-rate bounded QoS provisioning scheme over massive MIMO communication networks.