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Grant-free massive access is an important technique for supporting massive machine-type communications (mMTC) for Internet-of-Things (IoT). Two important features in grant-free massive access are low-complexity devices and short-packet data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Gang Chen , Ying Cui , Hei Victor Cheng , Feng Yang , Lianghui Ding

Tailor-made for massive connectivity and sporadic access, grant-free random access has become a promising candidate access protocol for massive machine-type communications (mMTC). Compared with conventional grant-based protocols, grant-free…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Zhaoji Zhang , Qinghua Guo , Ying Li , Ming Jin , Chongwen Huang

Massive MTC support is an important future market segment, but not yet efficiently supported in cellular systems. In this paper we follow-up on recent concepts combining advanced MAC protocols with Compressed Sensing (CS) based multiuser…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Gerhard Wunder , Cedomir Stefanovic , Petar Popovski , Lars Thiele

In this letter, we study the joint device activity and delay detection problem in asynchronous massive machine-type communications (mMTC), where all active devices asynchronously transmit their preassigned preamble sequences to the base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Zhaorui Wang , Ya-Feng Liu , Liang Liu

This work studies the uplink of grant-free low data-rate massive machine-to-machine communications (mMTC) where devices are only active sporadically, which requires a joint activity and data detection at the receiver. We develop an adaptive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-01 R. B. Di Renna , R. C. de Lamare

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Jinho Choi , Jie Ding , Ngoc Phuc Le , Zhiguo Ding

Internet of Things (IoT) has triggered a rapid increase in the number of connected devices and new use cases of wireless communications. To meet the new demands, the fifth generation (5G) of wireless communication systems features native…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-28 Leatile Marata , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , Eduardo Noboro Tominaga , Hirley Alves

In this paper, we investigate the joint device activity and data detection in massive machine-type communications (mMTC) with a one-phase non-coherent scheme, where data bits are embedded in the pilot sequences and the base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Zhe Ma , Wen Wu , Feifei Gao , Xuemin , Shen

Massive machine type communication (mMTC) is one of the basic components of the future fifth generation (5G) wireless communication system. In mMTC, the information processing at the sensor nodes is required to be simple, low power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-01 Mehmood Alam , Qi Zhang

In this work, we utilize the framework of compressed sensing (CS) for distributed device detection and resource allocation in large-scale machine-to-machine (M2M) communication networks. The devices deployed in the network are partitioned…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-19 Yunyan Chang , Peter Jung , Chan Zhou , Slawomir Stanczak

One objective of the 5G communication system and beyond is to support massive machine type of communication (mMTC) to propel the fast growth of diverse Internet of Things use cases. The mMTC aims to provide connectivity to tens of billions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-03 Mehmood Alam , Qi Zhang

Federated learning is a privacy-preserving approach to train a global model at a central server by collaborating with wireless devices, each with its own local training data set. In this paper, we present a compressive sensing approach for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-06 Yo-Seb Jeon , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Jun Li , H. Vincent Poor

This paper presents an estimation approach within the framework of uplink massive machine-type communications (mMTC) that considers the energy limitations of the devices. We focus on a scenario where a group of sensors observe a set of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Sergi Liesegang , Olga Muñoz , Antonio Pascual-Iserte

There is an increasing demand of massive machine-type communication (mMTC) to provide scalable access for a large number of devices, which has prompted extensive investigation on grant-free massive random access (RA) in 5G and beyond…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-13 Xinyu Bian , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

A novel compressive-sensing based signal multiplexing scheme is proposed in this paper to further improve the multiplexing gain for multiple input multiple output (MIMO) system. At the transmitter side, a Gaussian random measurement matrix…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-05 Chanzi Liu , Qingchun Chen , Xiaohu Tang

Grant-free random access is promising for massive connectivity with sporadic transmissions in massive machine type communications (mMTC), where the hand-shaking between the access point (AP) and users is skipped, leading to high access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhengdao Yuan , Fei Liu , Qinghua Guo , Xiaojun Yuan , Zhongyong Wang , Yonghui Li

Massive machine-type communication (mMTC) has been regarded as one of the most important use scenarios in the fifth generation (5G) and beyond wireless networks, which demands scalable access for a large number of devices. While grant-free…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-18 Xinyu Bian , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

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

This paper considers an uplink massive machine-type communication (mMTC) scenario, where a large number of user devices are connected to a base station (BS). A novel grant-free massive random access (MRA) strategy is proposed, considering…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jia-Cheng Jiang , Hui-Ming Wang

To realize orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based grant-free access for wideband systems under frequency-selective fading, existing device activity detection and channel estimation methods need substantial accuracy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhiyan Li , Ying Cui , Danny H. K. Tsang