Group paging is one of the most promising mechanisms to alleviate the Radio Access Network (RAN) overload problem in Long Term Evolution (LTE) network supporting Machine-type Communication (MTC). This work presents two enhancement schemes for group paging namely consecutive group paging and group paging with pre-backoff. Both schemes use the analytical model derived in [1] as the foundation, as well as the performance metrics. We implement the consecutive group paging with and without per-paging-access-interval dynamic resource allocation, and present two approaches of dynamic resource allocation. Simulation results show that the proposed schemes can improve the performance of group paging.

Group paging is one of the most promising mechanisms to alleviate the Radio Access Network (RAN) overload problem in Long Term Evolution (LTE) network supporting Machine-type Communication (MTC). This work presents two enhancement schemes for group paging namely consecutive group paging and group paging with pre-backoff. Both schemes use the analytical model derived in [1] as the foundation, as well as the performance metrics. We implement the consecutive group paging with and without per-paging-access-interval dynamic resource allocation, and present two approaches of dynamic resource allocation. Simulation results show that the proposed schemes can improve the performance of group paging.

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