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In this paper, we design a novel high-throughput random access scheme for an indoor optical wireless communication (OWC) massive Internet of Things (IoT) scenario. Due to the large density of both IoT devices and OWC access points (APs), we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-20 Dejan Vukobratovic , Francisco J. Escribano

Large communication networks, e.g. Internet of Things (IoT), are known to be vulnerable to co-channel interference. One possibility to address this issue is the use of orthogonal multiple access (OMA) techniques. However, due to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Steven Kisseleff , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

In this paper, we study the problem of user activity detection and large-scale fading coefficient estimation in a random access wireless uplink with a massive MIMO base station with a large number $M$ of antennas and a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Alexander Fengler , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

The sum rate performance of random-access networks crucially depends on the access protocol and receiver structure. Despite extensive studies, how to characterize the maximum sum rate of the simplest version of random access, Aloha, remains…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-18 Yitong Li , Lin Dai

This paper studies the theory of the additive wireless network model, in which the received signal is abstracted as an addition of the transmitted signals. Our central observation is that the crucial challenge for computing in this model is…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Keren Censor-Hillel , Erez Kantor , Nancy Lynch , Merav Parter

Artificial intelligence-generated traffic is changing the shape of wireless networks. Specifically, as the amount of data generated to train machine learning models is massive, network resources must be carefully allocated to continue…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Giovanni Perin , Eunjeong Jeong , Nikolaos Pappas

In this paper, we for the first time investigate the random access problem for a delay-constrained heterogeneous wireless network. We begin with a simple two-device problem where two devices deliver delay-constrained traffic to an access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Lei Deng , Danzhou Wu , Zilong Liu , Yijin Zhang , Yunghsiang S. Han

In this work, we derive achievable rate regions for the three-user interference channels with asymmetric transmitter cooperation and various decoding capabilities at the receivers. The three-user channel facilitates different ways of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-02-23 K. G. Nagananda , Chandra R. Murthy

We examine unsourced random access in a fully asynchronous setup, where active users transmit their data without restriction on the start time over a fading channel. In the proposed scheme, the transmitted signal consists of a pilot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Mert Ozates , Mohammad Kazemi , Gianluigi Liva , Deniz Gündüz

Problems dealing with the ability to take an action that affects the states of state-dependent communication channels are of timely interest and importance. Therefore, we extend the study of action-dependent channels, which until now…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Lior Dikstein , Haim H. Permuter , Shlomo Shamai

We study the problem of geometric optimization of medium access control in multi-hop wireless network. We discuss the optimal placements of simultaneous transmitters in the network and our general framework allows us to evaluate the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Salman Malik , Philippe Jacquet , Cedric Adjih

In a wireless network the set of transmitting nodes changes frequently because of the MAC scheduler and the traffic load. Previously, connectivity in wireless networks was analyzed using static geometric graphs, and as we show leads to an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 RadhaKrishna Ganti , Martin Haenggi

We consider a scenario where N users try to access a common base station. Associated with each user is its channel state and a finite queue which varies with time. Each user chooses his power and the admission control variable in a dynamic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2012-10-31 Prashant Narayanan , Vinod Sharma

In this letter, we design a downlink multi-user communication framework based on Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) for semantic-aware networks. First, we formulate an optimization problem to obtain the optimal user scheduling,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Onur Dizdar , Stephen Wang

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a key technology to enable massive machine type communications (mMTC) in 5G networks and beyond. In this paper, NOMA is applied to improve the random access efficiency in high-density…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Sami Khairy , Prasanna Balaprakash , Lin X. Cai , H. Vincent Poor

This letter considers temporal-correlated massive access, where each device, once activated, is likely to transmit continuously over several consecutive frames. Motivated by that the device activity at each frame is correlated to not only…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-17 Weifeng Zhu , Meixia Tao , Yunfeng Guan

We use fluid limits to explore the (in)stability properties of wireless networks with queue-based random-access algorithms. Queue-based random-access schemes are simple and inherently distributed in nature, yet provide the capability to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-02-26 Javad Ghaderi , Sem Borst , Phil Whiting

We consider multiple transmitters aiming to communicate their source signals (e.g., images) over a multiple access channel (MAC). Conventional communication systems minimize interference by orthogonally allocating resources (time and/or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Selim F. Yilmaz , Can Karamanli , Deniz Gunduz

Reliable and prompt identification of active users is critical for enabling random access in massive machine-to-machine type networks which typically operate within stringent access delay and energy constraints. In this paper, an energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Jyotish Robin , Elza Erkip

This paper studies a two-user state-dependent Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC) with state noncausally known at one encoder. Two scenarios are considered: i) each user wishes to communicate an independent message to the common…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Wei Yang , Yingbin Liang , Shlomo Shamai , H. Vincent Poor