Improving Network Availability of Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications with Multi-Connectivity.

Ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC) have stringent requirements on quality-of-service and network availability. Due to path loss and shadowing, it is very challenging to guarantee the stringent requirements of URLLC with satisfactory communication range. In this paper, we first provide a quantitative definition of network availability in the short blocklength regime: the probabil...