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Massive multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) systems with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) are foundational for downlink multi-user (MU) communication in future wireless networks, for their ability to enhance spectral…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Erdeng Zhang , Shuntian Zheng , Sheng Wu , Haoge Jia , Zhe Ji , Ailing Xiao

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) in 6G requires supporting a massive number of devices with limited resources, posing challenges in efficient random access. Grant-free random access and uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Thushan Sivalingam , Samad Ali , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva Aho

The Internet of Things paradigm heavily relies on a network of a massive number of machine-type devices (MTDs) that monitor various phenomena. Consequently, MTDs are randomly activated at different times whenever a change occurs. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Leatile Marata , Esa Ollila , Hirley Alves

Grant-free transmission and cell-free communication are vital in improving coverage and quality-of-service for massive machine-type communication. This paper proposes a novel framework of joint active user detection, channel estimation, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-20 Gangle Sun , Mengyao Cao , Wenjin Wang , Wei Xu , Christoph Studer

In large scale dynamic wireless networks, the amount of overhead caused by channel estimation (CE) is becoming one of the main performance bottlenecks. This is due to the large number users whose channels should be estimated, the user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Mohanad Obeed , Yasser Al-Eryani , Anas Chaaban

Multi-User Detection is fundamental not only to cellular wireless communication but also to Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) technology that supports supply chain management. The challenge of Multi-user Detection (MUD) is that of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Yuejie Chi , Yao Xie , Robert Calderbank

Cooperative transmission is an emerging communication technique that takes advantage of the broadcast nature of wireless channels. However, due to low spectral efficiency and the requirement of orthogonal channels, its potential for use in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zhu Han , Xin Zhang , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we tackle decision fusion for distributed detection in a randomly-deployed clustered wireless sensor networks (WSNs) operating over a non-ideal multiple access channels (MACs), i.e. considering Rayleigh fading, pathloss and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Sami Aldalahmeh , Domenico Ciuonzo

Multiuser massive multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems can be used to meet high throughput requirements of 5G and beyond networks. In an uplink MUMIMO system, a base station is serving a large number of users, leading to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Alva Kosasih , Vincent Onasis , Wibowo Hardjawana , Vera Miloslavskaya , Victor Andrean , Jenq-Shiou Leuy , Branka Vucetic

Future wireless networks need to support massive machine type communication (mMTC) where a massive number of devices accesses the network and massive MIMO is a promising enabling technology. Massive access schemes have been studied for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Unnikrishnan Kunnath Ganesan , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Massive random access is an important technology for achieving ultra-massive connectivity in next-generation wireless communication systems. It aims to address key challenges during the initial access phase, including active user detection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Keke Ying , Zhen Gao , Sheng Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

The massive machine-type communications (mMTC) paradigm based on media modulation in conjunction with massive MIMO base stations (BSs) is emerging as a viable solution to support the massive connectivity for the future Internet-of-Things,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Li Qiao , Jun Zhang , Zhen Gao , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Marco Di Renzo , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This paper studies the user activity detection and channel estimation problem in a temporally-correlated massive access system where a very large number of users communicate with a base station sporadically and each user once activated can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Weifeng Zhu , Meixia Tao , Xiaojun Yuan , Yunfeng Guan

A fundamental challenge of the large-scale Internet-of-Things lies in how to support massive machine-type communications (mMTC). This letter proposes a media modulation based mMTC solution for increasing the throughput, where a massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Li Qiao , Jun Zhang , Zhen Gao , Sheng Chen , Lajos Hanzo

Pilot contamination (PC) arises when the pilot sequences assigned to user equipments (UEs) are not mutually orthogonal, eventually due to their reuse. In this work, we propose a novel expectation propagation (EP)-based joint channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Christian Forsch , Zilu Zhao , Dirk Slock , Laura Cottatellucci

Energy detector (ED) is a popular choice for distributed cooperative spectrum sensing because it does not need to be cognizant of the primary user (PU) signal characteristics. However, the conventional ED-based sensing usually requires…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Mohammed Rashid , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

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 poised to provide ubiquitous connectivity for billions of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. However, the required low-latency massive access necessitates a paradigm shift in the design of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Yikun Mei , Zhen Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Wei Chen , Jun Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Marco Di Renzo

The thesis is dedicated to studying methods to improve the efficiency of random access schemes and to facilitate their deployment in machine-type communications (MTC). First, a joint user activity identification and channel estimation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Zhuo Sun

Channel estimation is essential to massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. While recent generative model-based approaches using lightweight diffusion models (DMs) have achieved superior performance, they typically rely on a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Zhuorui Jiang , Jun Fang , Boyu Ning , Hongbin Li , Ying-Chang Liang