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This paper is a tutorial introduction to the field of unsourced multiple access (UMAC) protocols. We first provide a historical survey of the evolution of random access protocols, focusing specifically on the case in which uncoordinated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Gianluigi Liva , Yury Polyanskiy

Due to its static protocol design, IEEE 802.11 (aka Wi-Fi) channel access lacks adaptability to address dynamic network conditions, resulting in inefficient spectrum utilization, unnecessary contention, and packet collisions. This paper…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Miguel Casasnovas , Francesc Wilhelmi , Richard Combes , Maksymilian Wojnar , Katarzyna Kosek-Szott , Szymon Szott , Anders Jonsson , Luis Esteve , Boris Bellalta

Underwater optical wireless communication (UOWC) is becoming an attractive technology for underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) since it offers high-speed communication links. Although UOWC overcomes the drawbacks of acoustic and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Rawan Alghamdi , Nasir Saeed , Hayssam Dahrouj , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

With wireless devices increasingly forming a unified smart network for seamless, user-friendly operations, random access (RA) medium access control (MAC) design is considered a key solution for handling unpredictable data traffic from…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Myeung Suk Oh , Zhiyao Zhang , FNU Hairi , Alvaro Velasquez , Jia Liu

Massive communication is one of key scenarios of 6G where two magnitude higher connection density would be required to serve diverse services. As a promising direction, unsourced multiple access has been proved to outperform significantly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yifei Yuan , Yuhong Huang , Chunlin Yan , Sen Wang , Shuai Ma , Xiaodong Shen

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is emerging as a pivotal technology for next-generation wireless networks. However, existing ISAC systems are based on fixed-position antennas (FPAs), which inevitably incur a loss in performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Jingze Ding , Zijian Zhou , Xiaodan Shao , Bingli Jiao , Rui Zhang

The last few decades have seen considerable research progress in microelectronics and integrated circuits, system-on-chip design, wireless communication, and sensor technology. This progress has enabled the seamless integration of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Sana Ullah , Pervez Khan , Young-Woo Choi , Hyung-Soo Lee , Kyung Sup Kwak

Distributed contention based Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols are the fundamental components for IEEE 802.11 based Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). Contention windows (CW) change dynamically to adapt to the current contention…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-02-09 Ponnusamy Kumar , A. Krishnan

The strength of carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) can be combined with that of time-division multiple access (TDMA) to enhance the channel access performance in wireless networks such as the IEEE…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Bharat Shrestha , Ekram Hossain , Kae Won Choi

Spatial and contextual awareness has the potential to revolutionize sensor nodes, enabling spatially augmented data collection and location-based services. With its high bandwidth, superior energy efficiency, and precise time-of-flight…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-22 Jonah Imfeld , Silvano Cortesi , Philipp Mayer , Michele Magno

The proliferation of wireless services and applications over the past decade has led to the rapidly increasing demand in wireless spectrum. Hence, we have been facing a critical spectrum shortage problem even though several measurements…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Le Thanh Tan

For a self-sustaining wireless communication system in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks, energy harvesting (EH) can be implemented at each user node as a constant renewable power supply source. Hence, an investigation into the use of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Derek Kwaku Pobi Asiedu , Sumaila Mahama , Changick Song , Dongwan Kim , Kyoung-Jae Lee

Advances in wireless sensor network (WSN) technology have provided the availability of small and low-cost sensor with capability of sensing various types of physical and environmental conditions, data processing, and wireless communication.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-12-25 Ganesh Subramanian

Several researches are focused on the QoS (Quality of Service) and Energy consumption in wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks. Those research projects invest in theory and practice in order to extend the spectrum of use of norms, standards…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 A. A. Boudhir , M. Bouhorma , M. Ben Ahmed , Elbrak Said

Multi-beam antenna technologies have provided lots of promising solutions to many current challenges faced in wireless mesh networks. The antenna can establish several beamformings simultaneously and initiate concurrent transmissions or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Gang Wang , Yanyuan Qin

In this paper, a novel mean-field game framework is proposed for uplink power control in an ultra-dense millimeter wave network. The proposed mean-field game considers the time evolution of the mobile users' orientations as well as the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Nof Abuzainab , Walid Saad , Allen B. MacKenzie

In this paper, we investigate a new waveform for UWB systems obtained by the combination of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA). The proposed system, called Spread Spectrum - Multi-Carrier…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Emeric Guéguen , Matthieu Crussière , Jean-François Hélard

Intentional interference constitutes a major threat for communication networks operating over a shared medium where availability is imperative. Jamming attacks are often simple and cheap to implement. In particular, today's jammers can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-03-04 Andrea Richa , Christian Scheideler , Stefan Schmid , Jin Zhang

The existing medium access control (MAC) protocol of Wi-Fi networks (i.e., carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA)) suffers from poor performance in dense deployments due to the increasing number of collisions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Jiantao Xin , Wensen Xu , Yucheng Cai , Taotao Wang , Shengli Zhang , Peng Liu , Ziyang Guo , Jiajun Luo

We propose a reinforcement learning based scheduling framework for Restless Multi-Armed Bandit (RMAB) problems, centred on a Whittle Index Q-Learning policy with Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) exploration, referred to as WIQL-UCB. Unlike…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-14 Sokipriala Jonah , Seong Ki Yoo , Saurav Sthapit