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Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) are fundamental to the Internet of Things (IoT) framework in future wireless networks, involving the connection of a vast number of devices with sporadic transmission patterns. Traditional device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Xinjue Wang , Esa Ollila , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

We propose a novel random access (RA) protocol that accounts for the network traffic in mixed URLLC-mMTC scenarios. By considering an IoT environment under high mMTC traffic demand, we model the traffic of each service using realistic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-14 Herman L. dos Santos , João H. I. Souza , José Carlos Marinello , Taufik Abrão

Wireless systems are increasingly used for Machine-Type Communication (MTC), where the users sporadically send very short messages. In such a setting, the overhead imposed by channel estimation is substantial, thereby demanding noncoherent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Zoran Utkovski , Tome Eftimov , Petar Popovski

A high success rate of grant-free random access scheme is proposed to support massive access for machine-to-machine communications in massive multipleinput multiple-output systems. This scheme allows active user equipments (UEs) to transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Huimei Han , Lushun Fang , Weidang Lu , Wenchao Zhai , Ying Li , Jun Zhao

Modern wireless networks must reliably support a wide array of connectivity demands, encompassing various user needs across diverse scenarios. Machine-Type Communication (mMTC) is pivotal in these networks, particularly given the challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ali Elkeshawy , HaÏfa Farès , Amor Nafkha

The central challenge in massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is to connect a large number of uncoordinated devices through a limited spectrum. The typical mMTC communication pattern is sporadic, with short packets. This could be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Yanna Bai , Wei Chen , Feifei Sun , Bo Ai , Petar Popovski

A canonical scenario in Machine-Type Communications (MTC) is the one featuring a large number of devices, each of them with sporadic traffic. Hence, the number of served devices in a single LTE cell is not determined by the available…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Jimmy J. Nielsen , Dong Min Kim , Germán C. Madueño , Nuno K. Pratas , Petar Popovski

Massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC) is a key service category in the current generation of wireless networks featuring an extremely high density of energy and resource-limited devices with sparse and sporadic activity patterns. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jyotish Robin , Elza Erkip

Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) is a technology that allows groups of vehicles to form in automated, tightly-coupled platoons. CACC schemes exploit Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) wireless communications to exchange information between…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Mischa Huisman , Carlos Murguia , Erjen Lefeber , Nathan van de Wouw

LTE random access procedure performs satisfactorily in case of asynchronous, uncorrelated traffic arrivals. However, when the arrivals are correlated and arrive synchronously, the performance of the random access channel (RACH) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-27 Germán Corrales Madueño , Čedomir Stefanović , Petar Popovski

Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications are one of the major drivers of the cellular network evolution towards 5G systems. One of the key challenges is on how to provide reliability guarantees to each accessing device in a situation in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-11 German Corrales Madueno , Nuno K. Pratas , Cedomir Stefanovic , Petar Popovski

A massive MIMO system, represented by a base station with hundreds of antennas, is capable of spatially multiplexing many devices and thus naturally suited to serve dense crowds of wireless devices in emerging applications, such as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Elisabeth de Carvalho , Emil Björnson , Jesper H. Sørensen , Erik G. Larsson , Petar Popovski

We present a connection establishment protocol with integrated authentication, suited for Massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC). The protocol is contention-based and its main feature is that a device contends with a unique signature…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Nuno K. Pratas , Sarath Pattathil , Cedomir Stefanovic , Petar Popovski

Grant-free transmission is considered as a promising technology to support sporadic data transmission in massive machine-type communications (mMTC). Due to the distributed manner, high collision probability is an inherent drawback of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Hui Jiang , Qimei Cui , Yu Gu , Xiaoqi Qin , Xuefei Zhang , Xiaofeng Tao

Support massive connectivity is an important requirement in 5G wireless communication system. For massive Machine Type Communication (MTC) scenario, since the network is expected to accommodate a massive number of MTC devices with sparse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Yanlun Wu , Jun Fang

Vehicle collisions remain a major challenge in large-scale mixed traffic systems, especially when human-driven vehicles (HVs) and robotic vehicles (RVs) interact under dynamic and uncertain conditions. Although Multi-Agent Reinforcement…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Muyang Fan

5th generation networks are envisioned to provide seamless and ubiquitous connection to 1000-fold more devices and is believed to provide ultra-low latency and higher data rates up to tens of Gbps. Different technologies enabling these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Kamran Zia , Nauman Javed , Muhammad Nadeem Sial , Sohail Ahmed , Hifsa Iram , Asad Amir Pirzada

Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) is an autonomous vehicle-following technology that allows groups of vehicles on the highway to form in tightly-coupled platoons. This is accomplished by exchanging inter-vehicle data through…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-06 Tianci Yang , Carlos Murguia , Chen Lv

Massive MIMO is one of the key technologies to support the growth of massive access attempts by devices, such as in massive machine type communication (mMTC). The evolution of antenna array technology brought the recent extra-large scale…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-02 Thiago Augusto Bruza Alves , Taufik Abrão

The extra-large multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) architecture has been recognized as a technology for supporting the massive MTC (mMTC), providing very high-data rates in high-user density scenarios. However, the large dimension of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Thiago Augusto Bruza Alves , Taufik Abrao