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We consider the transmission of short packets over a bidirectional communication link where multiple devices, e.g., sensors and actuators, exchange small-data payloads with a base station equipped with a large antenna array. Using results…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Johan Östman , Alejandro Lancho , Giuseppe Durisi

In this work we treat the unsourced random access problem on a Rayleigh block-fading AWGN channel with multiple receive antennas. Specifically, we consider the slowly fading scenario where the coherence block-length is large compared to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Alexander Fengler , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

This paper investigates the problem of energy-efficient packet transmission with arbitrary arrival instants and deadline constraints over a point-to-point Additive White Gaussian Noise (AWGN) channel. This is different from previous work…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-10-06 Qing Zhou , Nan Liu

In this paper, we investigate the performance gains of adapting pilot spacing and power for Carrier Aggregation (CA)-OFDM systems in nonstationary wireless channels. In current multi-band CA-OFDM wireless networks, all component carriers…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-12 Raghunandan M. Rao , Vuk Marojevic , Jeffrey H. Reed

Consider a device that is connected to an edge processor via a communication channel. The device holds local data that is to be offloaded to the edge processor so as to train a machine learning model, e.g., for regression or classification.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Nicolas Skatchkovsky , Osvaldo Simeone

In this paper, we study the optimal timing for pilot and data transmissions to maximize effective throughput, also known as goodput, over a wireless fading channel. The receiver utilizes the received pilot signal and its Age of Information…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Sirin Chakraborty , Yin Sun

This paper proposes a new method for optimizing frequency-hopping ad hoc networks in the presence of Rayleigh fading. It is assumed that the system uses a capacity-approaching code (e.g., turbo or LDPC) and noncoherent binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-17 Salvatore Talarico , Matthew C. Valenti , Don Torrieri

We assume that a message may be delivered by packets through multiple hops and investigate the feasibility and efficiency of an implementation of the Omega Failure Detector under such an assumption.To motivate the study, we prove that the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-02-15 Quentin Bramas , Dianne Foreback , Mikhail Nesterenko , Sébastien Tixeuil

We present a novel closed-form lower bound on the Gaussian-input mutual information for noncoherent communication (i.e., in which neither transmitter nor receiver are cognizant of the fading state) over a frequency-flat fading channel with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Adriano Pastore

Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulation has recently garnered attention for its robustness in high-mobility wireless communication environments. In OTFS, the data symbols are mapped to the Doppler-Delay (DD) domain. In this paper,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Kailong Wang , Athina Petropulu

Location information is often used as a proxy to guarantee the performance of a wireless communication link. However, localization errors can result in a significant mismatch with the guarantees, particularly detrimental to users operating…

The purpose of this paper is to model traffic in Ad Hoc network of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and demonstrate a way for adapting communication channel using Artificial Intelligence. The modeling was based on the original model of Ad Hoc…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Andrii Grekhov , Volodymyr Kharchenko , Vasyl Kondratiuk

Future wireless systems are expected to support mission-critical services demanding higher and higher reliability. In this letter, we dimension the radio resources needed to achieve a given failure probability target for ultra-reliable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Gilberto Berardinelli , Ramoni Adeogun

Pilot contamination is a critical issue in distributed massive MIMO networks, where the reuse of pilot sequences due to limited availability of orthogonal pilots for channel estimation leads to performance degradation. In this work, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Mohd Saif Ali Khan , Samar Agnihotri , Karthik R. M

Considering a short frame length, which is typical in Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency and massive Machine Type Communications, a trade-off exists between improving the performance of frame synchronization (FS) and improving the performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Alex The Phuong Nguyen , Raphaël Le Bidan , Frédéric Guilloud

Physical layer security has recently been regarded as an emerging technique to complement and improve the communication security in future wireless networks. The current research and development in physical layer security is often based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Biao He , Xiangyun Zhou

One key feature of ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) in 5G is to support short packet transmission (SPT). However, the pilot overhead in SPT for channel estimation is relatively high, especially in high Doppler environments.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Canjian Zheng , Fu-Chun Zheng , Jingjing Luo , Pengcheng Zhu , Xiaohu You , Daquan Feng

A pilot-assisted transmission (PAT) scheme is proposed for short blocklengths, where the pilots are used only to derive an initial channel estimate for the list construction step. The final decision of the message is obtained by applying a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Mustafa Cemil Coşkun , Gianluigi Liva , Johan Östman , Giuseppe Durisi

With the large number of antennas and subcarriers the overhead due to pilot transmission for channel estimation can be prohibitive in wideband massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. This can degrade the overall spectral…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi , Deniz Gunduz

In recent years, the derivation of nonasymptotic converse and achievability bounds on the maximum coding rate as a function of the error probability and blocklength has gained attention in the information theory literature. While these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Alejandro Lancho , Jöhan Ostman , Giuseppe Durisi , Tobias Koch , Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar