Balancing AoI and Rate for Mission-Critical and eMBB Coexistence with Puncturing, NOMA,and RSMA in Cellular Uplink

Farnaz Khodakhah, Aamir Mahmood, Čedomir Stefanović +3

Through the lens of average and peak age-of-information (AoI), this paper takes a fresh look into the uplink medium access solutions for mission-critical (MC) communication coexist…