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The collision resolution mechanism in the Random Access Channel (RACH) procedure of the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) standard is known to represent a serious bottleneck in case of machine-type traffic. Its main drawbacks are seen in the facts…
During the initial years of its inception, the Internet was widely used for transferring data packets between users and respective data sources by using IP addresses. With the advancements in technology, the Internet has been used to share…
Efficiently retrieving relevant data from massive Internet of Things (IoT) networks is essential for downstream tasks such as machine learning. This paper addresses this challenge by proposing a novel data sourcing protocol that combines…
The use of cellular networks for massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is an appealing solution due to the wide availability of cellular infrastructure. Estimating the number of devices (network load) is vital for efficient allocation…
This paper develops a novel spatiotemporal model for large-scale IoT networks with asynchronous periodic traffic and hard-packet deadlines. A static marked Poisson bipolar point process is utilized to model the spatial locations of the IoT…
Recently, non-orthogonal codes have been advocated for IoT massive access. Activity detection has been demonstrated to entail common support recovery in a jointly sparse multiple measurement vector (MMV) problem and MMV algorithms have been…
Leveraging grant-free radio access for enabling lowpower wide-area (LPWA) Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity has attracted lots of attention in recent years. Regarding lack of research on LPWA IoT networks, this work is devoted to…
Massive machine type communication (mMTC) has been identified as an important use case in Beyond 5G networks and future massive Internet of Things (IoT). However, for the massive multiple access in mMTC, there is a serious access preamble…
In this paper, the problem of random access contention between machine type devices (MTDs) in the uplink of a wireless cellular network is studied. In particular, the possibility of forming cooperative groups to coordinate the MTDs'…
Wireless medium access control (MAC) and routing protocols are fundamental building blocks of the Internet of Things (IoT). As new IoT networking standards are being proposed and different existing solutions patched, evaluating the…
While RPCs form the bedrock of systems stacks, we posit that IoT device collections in smart spaces like homes, warehouses, and office buildings--which are all "user-facing"--require a more expressive abstraction. Orthogonal to prior work,…
This paper considers joint device activity detection and channel estimation in Internet of Things (IoT) networks, where a large number of IoT devices exist but merely a random subset of them become active for short-packet transmission at…
Random access networks have long been observed to suffer from low throughput if nodes' access strategy is not properly designed. To improve the throughput performance, learning-based approaches, with which each node learns from the…
Direct-to-satellite (DtS) communication has gained importance recently to support globally connected Internet of things (IoT) networks. However, relatively long distances of densely deployed satellite networks around the Earth cause a high…
The Internet has recently witnessed unprecedented growth of a class of connected assets called the Internet of Things (IoT). Due to relatively immature manufacturing processes and limited computing resources, IoTs have inadequate…
The number of wireless devices is drastically increasing, resulting in many devices contending for radio resources. In this work, we present an algorithm to detect active devices for unsourced random access, i.e., the devices are…
The cellular internet of things (CIoT) has become an important branch to cater various applications of IoT devices. Within CIoT, the radio resource control (RRC) layer is responsible for fundamental functionalities such as connection…
Scheduling and Channel Access at the MAC layer of the IoT network plays a pivotal role in enhancing the performance of IoT networks. State-of-the-art Omni-directional antenna based application data transmission has relatively less…
Due to the increase of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, IoT networks are getting overcrowded. Networks can be extended with more gateways, increasing the number of supported devices. However, as investigated in this work, massive MIMO has…
Industrial internet of Things (IIoT) are gaining popularity for use in large-scale applications such as oil-field management (e.g., $74\times 8$km$^2$ East Texas Oil-field), smart farming, smart manufacturing, smart grid, and data center…