Xiang Zihao, Ge Ning, Lu Jianhua. Delay Uncertainty-Tolerant Time Division Scheduling for Dynamic Multi-Hop Wireless Networks[J/OL]. Journal on Communications, 2026.
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Xiang Zihao, Ge Ning, Lu Jianhua. Delay Uncertainty-Tolerant Time Division Scheduling for Dynamic Multi-Hop Wireless Networks[J/OL]. Journal on Communications, 2026.DOI: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.TXXB260291.
Delay Uncertainty-Tolerant Time Division Scheduling for Dynamic Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
TA)机制可能发生收发冲突,难以保障确定性时延。为此,本文提出一种时延不确定性容忍的调度机制。首先,引入TA包络锁定机制,通过锁定冗余时隙,增强调度表对抗底层时延不确定性的稳健性。其次,推导适用于动态场景的最恶劣分数干扰系数表达式以评估物理层干扰。最后,构建时间展开冲突图,将业务准入与资源分配建模为混合整数非线性规划,设计延迟约束生成与状态空间剪裁策略加速求解。仿真表明,在本文参数范围和10秒控制周期内,该机制在半双工机动无线网中以有限的冗余时隙为代价,使准入业务的准时交付率达100%。相较于包含20%保护间隔(guard period
Node mobility causes propagation delays to drift within a scheduling cycle. Time division (TD) scheduling and timing advance (TA) based on static delays may lead to transmission-reception conflicts
making deterministic latency difficult to guarantee. To address this issue
a scheduling mechanism tolerant of delay uncertainty was proposed. First
a “TA envelope” locking mechanism was introduced
and redundant time slots were reserved to enhance the robustness of the scheduling table against delay uncertainty. Second
a worst-case fractional interference coefficient for dynamic scenarios was derived to evaluate physical-layer interference. Finally
a time-expanded conflict graph was constructed
and the joint traffic-admission and resource-allocation problem was formulated as a mixed-integer nonlinear programming problem. Delay-constraint generation and state-space pruning strategies were further designed to accelerate the solution. Simulations show that
under the evaluated parameters and a 10 s control period
the proposed mechanism achieves 100% on-time delivery for admitted flows in half-duplex mobile wireless networks with limited redundant-slot overhead. Compared with a scheme using a 20% guard period (GP)
slot utilization is about 30% lower
while the average end-to-end delay is reduced by 28.9%; the tolerable node speed is on the order of 10² m/s.
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