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Conventional communication systems are mainly designed to reduce error rates and increase transmission rates, and therefore usually provide uniform protection to all transmitted messages. However, in intent-oriented applications, different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Qiming Lu , Shan Lu , Takaya Yamazato

Random access protocols relying on the transmission of packet replicas in multiple slots and exploiting interference cancellation at the receiver have been shown to achieve per- formance competitive with that of orthogonal schemes. So far…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Federico Clazzer , Enrico Paolini , Iacopo Mambelli , Cedomir Stefanovic

Herein, we consider the problem of cooperative multi-access in the presence of overlapped coverage areas. Assuming a frameless ALOHA transmission scheme, we derive exact analytical throughput expressions for throughput in the aforementioned…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-21 Shun Ogata , Koji Ishibashi , Giuseppe Abreu

Wireless random access protocols are attracting a revived research interest as a simple yet effective solution for machine-type communications. In the quest to improve reliability and spectral efficiency of such schemes, the use of multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Andrea Munari , Federico Clazzer , Gianluigi Liva , Michael Heindlmaier

We introduce a framework to study slotted Aloha with cooperative base stations. Assuming a geographic-proximity communication model, we propose several decoding algorithmswith different degrees of base stations' cooperation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Dusan Jakovetic , Dragana Bajovic , Dejan Vukobratovic , Vladimir Crnojevic

Recently, random access protocols have acquired a new wave of interest, not only from the satellite communication community, but also from researchers active in fields like Internet of Things and machine-to-machine. Asynchronous (slot- and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Federico Clazzer , Christian Kissling , Mario Marchese

ALOHA is one of the most basic Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols and represents a foundation for other more sophisticated distributed and asynchronous MAC protocols, e.g., CSMA. In this paper, unlike in the traditional work that focused…

Performance · Computer Science 2009-02-27 Predrag R. Jelenkovic , Jian Tan

A finite length analysis is introduced for irregular repetition slotted ALOHA (IRSA) that enables to accurately estimate its performance in the moderate-to-high packet loss probability regime, i.e., in the so-called waterfall region. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Alexandre Graell i Amat , Gianluigi Liva

In this paper, a simple variation of classical Slotted Aloha is introduced and analyzed. The enhancement relies on adding multiple receivers that gather different observations of the packets transmitted by a user population in one slot. For…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Andrea Munari , Michael Heindlmaier , Gianluigi Liva , Matteo Berioli

In this paper, coded slotted ALOHA (CSA) is introduced as a powerful random access scheme to the MAC frame. In CSA, the burst a generic user wishes to transmit in the MAC frame is first split into segments, and these segments are then…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Enrico Paolini , Gianluigi Liva , Marco Chiani

In this paper, we design a new polar slotted ALOHA (PSA) protocol over the slot erasure channels, which uses polar coding to construct the identical slot pattern (SP) assembles within each active user and base station. A theoretical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Zhijun Zhang , Kai Niu , Jincheng Dai , Chao Dong

The random access scheme is a fundamental scenario in which users transmit through a shared channel and cannot coordinate each other. In recent years, successive interference cancellation (SIC) was introduced into the random access scheme.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Tomokazu Emoto , Takayuki Nozaki

In this letter, we develop a converse bound on the asymptotic load threshold of coded slotted ALOHA (CSA) schemes with K-multi packet reception capabilities at the receiver. Density evolution is used to track the average probability of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Cedomir Stefanovic , Enrico Paolini , Gianluigi Liva

This paper investigates unequal error protection (UEP) in digital semantic communication, where semantically important bits require substantially higher reliability than less critical ones. To characterize this heterogeneity, we introduce a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Seonjung Kim , Yongjeong Oh , Yongjune Kim , Namyoon Lee , Yo-Seb Jeon

This paper introduces a random multiple access method for satellite communications, named Network Coding-based Slotted Aloha (NCSA). The goal is to improve diversity of data bursts on a slotted-ALOHA-like channel thanks to error correcting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-09-27 Huyen Chi Bui , Jerome Lacan , Marie-Laure Boucheret

Undetected errors are important for linear codes, which are the only type of errors after hard decision and automatic-repeat-request (ARQ), but do not receive much attention on their correction. In concatenated channel coding, suboptimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Jingzhao Wang , Yuan Luo

We study multiple base station, multi-access systems in which the user-base station adjacency is induced by geographical proximity. At each slot, each user transmits (is active) with a certain probability, independently of other users, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Dragana Bajovic , Dusan Jakovetic , Dejan Vukobratovic , Vladimir Crnojevic

We study a variant of unequal error protection in channel coding, where the message bit string is divided into a finite number of blocks and the maximization objective is a weighted sum of per-block decoding success probabilities. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Adeel Mahmood

In this paper, the problem of using uncoordinated multiple access (UMA) to serve a massive amount of heterogeneous users is investigated. Leveraging the heterogeneity, we propose a novel UMA protocol, called iterative collision resolution…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-25 Yu-Chih Huang , Shin-Lin Shieh , Yu-Pin Hsu , Hao-Ping Cheng

LoRaWAN is one of the most promising standards for IoT applications. Nevertheless, the high density of end-devices expected for each gateway, the absence of an effective synchronization scheme between gateway and end-devices, challenge the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Tommaso Polonelli , Davide Brunelli , Luca Benini