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We analytically study a carrier sense multiple access (CSMA)-based network. In the network, the nodes have their own average throughput demands for transmission to a common base station. The CSMA is based on the request-to-send…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Fu-Te Hsu , Hsuan-Jung Su

Applications like environmental sensing, and health and activity sensing, are supported by networks of devices (nodes) that send periodic packet transmissions over the wireless channel to a sink node. We look at simple abstractions that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Sanjit K. Kaul , Roy D. Yates

This paper considers the massive connectivity problem in an asynchronous grant-free random access system, where a huge number of devices sporadically transmit data to a base station (BS) with imperfect synchronization. The goal is to design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Weifeng Zhu , Meixia Tao , Xiaojun Yuan , Yunfeng Guan

This paper addresses the problem of distributed state estimation via multiple access channels (MACs). We consider a scenario where two encoders are simultaneously communicating their measurements through a noisy channel. Firstly, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-23 Ghassen Zafzouf , Girish N. Nair , Farhad Farokhi

The paper treats uplink scenario where M user equipments (UEs) send to a Base Station (BS), possibly via a common Relay Station (RS) that is equipped with a buffer. This is a multiple-access relay channel (MARC) aided by a buffer. We devise…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Rongkuan Liu , Petar Popovski , Gang Wang

We study mission-critical networking in wireless communication networks, where network users are subject to critical events such as emergencies and crises. If a critical event occurs to a user, the user needs to send necessary information…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-04-06 Jaeok Park , Mihaela van der Schaar

This paper proposes an adaptive transmission algorithm for slotted random access systems supporting the successive interference cancellation (SIC) at the access point (AP). When multiple users transmit packets simultaneously in a slot,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-13 Sang-Woon Jeon , Hu Jin

In this paper, we present an achievable security scheme for an interference channel with arbitrary number of users. In this model, each receiver should be able to decode its intended message while it cannot decode any meaningful information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Parisa Babaheidarian , Somayeh Salimi , Panos Papadimitratos

Lattice codes used under the Compute-and-Forward paradigm suggest an alternative strategy for the standard Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC): The receiver successively decodes integer linear combinations of the messages until it can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jingge Zhu , Michael Gastpar

We consider the design of cognitive Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols enabling a secondary (unlicensed) transmitter-receiver pair to communicate over the idle periods of a set of primary (licensed) channels. More specifically, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-07-25 Omar Mehanna , Ahmed Sultan , Hesham El Gamal

Traditionally, the capacity region of a coherent fading multiple access channel (MAC) is analyzed in two popular contexts. In the first, a centralized system with full channel state information at the transmitters (CSIT) is assumed, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-17 Sreejith Sreekumar , Bikash K. Dey , Sibi Raj B. Pillai

Intentional interference constitutes a major threat for communication networks operating over a shared medium where availability is imperative. Jamming attacks are often simple and cheap to implement. In particular, today's jammers can…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-03-04 Andrea Richa , Christian Scheideler , Stefan Schmid , Jin Zhang

Many-user MAC is an important model for understanding energy efficiency of massive random access in 5G and beyond. Introduced in Polyanskiy'2017 for the AWGN channel, subsequent works have provided improved bounds on the asymptotic minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Suhas S Kowshik

Interference alignment has emerged as a powerful tool in the analysis of multi-user networks. Despite considerable recent progress, the capacity region of the Gaussian K-user interference channel is still unknown in general, in part due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Or Ordentlich , Uri Erez , Bobak Nazer

We consider multiple transmitters aiming to communicate their source signals (e.g., images) over a multiple access channel (MAC). Conventional communication systems minimize interference by orthogonally allocating resources (time and/or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Selim F. Yilmaz , Can Karamanli , Deniz Gunduz

The recent development of the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) paradigm, has been extensively based on the pursuit of favorable propagation: in the asymptotic limit, the channel vectors become nearly orthogonal and inter-user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Christos Masouros , Michail Matthaiou

The multiuser communication channel, in which multiple users exchange information with the help of a relay terminal, termed the multi-way relay channel (mRC), is introduced. In this model, multiple interfering clusters of users communicate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-14 Deniz Gunduz , Aylin Yener , Andrea Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

Movable antenna (MA) is a promising technology to improve wireless communication performance by varying the antenna position in a given finite area at the transceivers to create more favorable channel conditions. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Lipeng Zhu , Wenyan Ma , Boyu Ning , Rui Zhang

This paper studies a multiaccess coded caching (MACC) where the connectivity topology between the users and the caches can be described by a class of combinatorial designs. Our model includes as special cases several MACC topologies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Petros Elia , Giuseppe Caire

We show that the problem of code construction for multiple access channel (MAC) resolvability can be reduced to the simpler problem of code construction for source resolvability. Specifically, we propose a MAC resolvability code…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Rumia Sultana , Remi A. Chou