Related papers: Grouping-Based Random Access Collision Control for…
Grant-free random access (RA) techniques are suitable for machine-type communication (MTC) networks but they need to be adaptive to the MTC traffic, which is different from the human-type communication. Conventional RA protocols such as…
The high risk of random access collisions leads to huge challenge for the deployment massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC), which cannot be sufficiently overcome by current solutions in LTE/LTE-A networks such as the extended access…
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…
The Fifth Generation (5G) wireless service of sensor networks involves significant challenges when dealing with the coordination of ever-increasing number of devices accessing shared resources. This has drawn major interest from the…
Massive machine-type communication (MTC) is expected to play a key role in supporting Internet of Things (IoT) applications such as smart cities, smart factory, and connected vehicles through cellular networks. MTC is characterized by a…
Wireless cellular networks feature two emerging technological trends. The first is the direct Device-to-Device (D2D) communications, which enables direct links between the wireless devices that reutilize the cellular spectrum and radio…
Massive Machine-Type Communications (MTC) over cellular networks is expected to be an integral part of wireless "Smart City" applications. The Long Term Evolution (LTE)/LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) technology is a major candidate for provisioning…
To enable massive machine type communication (mMTC), data aggregation is a promising approach to reduce the congestion caused by a massive number of machine type devices (MTDs). In this work, we consider a two-phase cellular-based mMTC…
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications is one of the key enablers of the Internet of Things (IoT). Billions of devices are expected to be deployed in the next future for novel M2M applications demanding ubiquitous access and global…
Data aggregation is a promising approach to enable massive machine-type communication (mMTC). Here, we first characterize the aggregation phase where a massive number of machine-type devices transmits to their respective aggregator. By…
We propose a novel random multiple access (RMA) scheme with quality of service (QoS) guarantees for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. We consider a slotted uncoordinated data transmission period during which machine type…
Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) or massive access is a critical scenario in the fifth generation (5G) and the future cellular network. With the surging density of devices from millions to billions, unique pilot allocation becomes…
Machine-type communications (MTC) are expected to play an essential role within future 5G systems. In the FP7 project METIS, MTC has been further classified into "massive Machine-Type Communication" (mMTC) and "ultra-reliable Machine-Type…
Machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless systems aim to provide ubiquitous connectivity between machine type communication (MTC) devices without any human intervention. Given the exponential growth of MTC traffic, it is of utmost importance to…
In this paper, an LSTM-aided hybrid random access scheme (LSTMH-RA) is proposed to support diverse quality of service (QoS) requirements in 6G machine-type communication (MTC) networks, where massive MTC (mMTC) devices and ultra-reliable…
The notion of a fast uplink grant is emerging as a promising solution for enabling massive machine type communications (MTCs) in the Internet of Things over cellular networks. By using the fast uplink grant, machine type devices (MTD) will…
The evolution of fifth generation (5G) networks needs to support the latest use cases, which demand robust network connectivity for the collaborative performance of the network agents, like multi-robot systems and vehicle to anything (V2X)…
With the continuous growth of machine-type devices (MTDs), it is expected that massive machine-type communication (mMTC) will be the dominant form of traffic in future wireless networks. Applications based on this technology, have…
In future wireless networks, one fundamental challenge for massive machine-type communications (mMTC) lies in the reliable support of massive connectivity with low latency. Against this background, this paper proposes a compressive sensing…
In this paper, we explore various multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) techniques to design grant-free random access (RA) schemes for low-complexity, low-power battery operated devices in massive machine-type communication (mMTC)…