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In this paper we focus on a feedback mechanism for unsourced random access (URA) communications. We propose an algorithm to construct feedback packets broadcasted to the users by the base station (BS) as well as the feedback packet format…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Murwan Bashir , Ehsan Nassaji , Dmitri Truhachev , Alireza Bayesteh , Monirosharieh Vameghestahbanati

We generalize the type-based multiple access framework proposed by Mergen and Tong (2006) to the case of unsourced multiple access. In the proposed framework, each device tracks the state of a physical/digital process, quantizes this state,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Deekshith Pathayappilly Krishnan , Kaan Okumus , Giuseppe Durisi , Erik G. Ström

This paper investigates the problem of joint massive devices separation and channel estimation for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided unsourced random access (URA) scheme in the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Xiaodan Shao , Lei Cheng , Xiaoming Chen , Chongwen Huang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Massive communication is one of key scenarios of 6G where two magnitude higher connection density would be required to serve diverse services. As a promising direction, unsourced multiple access has been proved to outperform significantly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yifei Yuan , Yuhong Huang , Chunlin Yan , Sen Wang , Shuai Ma , Xiaodong Shen

We consider unsourced random access (uRA) in user-centric cell-free (CF) wireless networks, where random access users send codewords from a common codebook during specifically dedicated random access channel (RACH) slots. The system is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Eleni Gkiouzepi , Burak Çakmak , Manfred Opper , Giuseppe Caire

Unsourced random access is a novel communication paradigm designed for handling a large number of uncoordinated users that sporadically transmit very short messages. Under this model, coded compressed sensing (CCS) has emerged as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Jamison R. Ebert , Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Stefano Rini , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Krishna R. Narayanan

Unsourced random access (URA) has emerged as a pragmatic framework for next-generation distributed sensor networks. Within URA, concatenated coding structures are often employed to ensure that the central base station can accurately recover…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Jamison R. Ebert , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Krishna R. Narayanan

Providing connectivity to a massive number of devices is a key challenge in 5G wireless systems. In particular, it is crucial to develop efficient methods for active device identification and message decoding in a multi-cell network with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Pei Yang , Dongning Guo , Hongwen Yang

Unsourced random-access (U-RA) is a type of grant-free random access with a virtually unlimited number of users, of which only a certain number $K_a$ are active on the same time slot. Users employ exactly the same codebook, and the task of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Alexander Fengler , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

Unsourced random-access (U-RA) is a type of grant-free random access with a virtually unlimited number of users, of which only a certain number $K_a$ are active on the same time slot. Users employ exactly the same codebook, and the task of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Alexander Fengler , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

In Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs), secondary users (SUs) must efficiently discover each other across multiple communication channels while avoiding interference from primary users (PUs). Traditional multichannel rendezvous algorithms…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yung-Li Wang , Yiwei Liu , Cheng-Shang Chang

We consider the problem of unsourced random access (U-RA), a grant-free uncoordinated form of random access, in a wireless channel with a massive MIMO base station equipped with a large number $M$ of antennas and a large number of wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Alexander Fengler , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

We consider the approximate support recovery (ASR) task of inferring the support of a $K$-sparse vector ${\bf x} \in \mathbb{R}^n$ from $m$ noisy measurements. We examine the case where $n$ is large, which precludes the application of…

Multi user orthogonal chirp spread spectrum (OCSS) can improve the spectral inefficiency of chirp spread spectrum (CSS) but is only feasible with perfect synchronism and without any channel dispersion. Asynchronism, channel dispersion, or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-16 Nozhan Hosseini , David W. Matolak

This paper considers an unsourced random access (URA) set-up equipped with a passive reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), where a massive number of unidentified users (only a small fraction of them being active at any given time) are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Mohammad Kazemi , Tolga M. Duman

This article considers the massive MIMO unsourced random access problem on a quasi-static Rayleigh fading channel. Given a fixed message length and a prescribed number of channel uses, the objective is to construct a coding scheme that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Michail Gkagkos , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Costas N. Georghiades

In this work, we present the design for both pilot-uncoupled and pilot-free on-off multiple access (ODMA) receivers in unsourced random access (URA) for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Unlike pilot-coupled ODMA, where on-off…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Zaichen Zhang

This paper is concerned with the fundamental problem of estimating chirp parameters from a mixture of linear chirp signals. Unlike most previous methods, which solve the problem by discretizing the parameter space and then estimating the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Dehui Yang , Feng Xi

We examine unsourced random access in a fully asynchronous setup, where active users transmit their data without restriction on the start time over a fading channel. In the proposed scheme, the transmitted signal consists of a pilot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Mert Ozates , Mohammad Kazemi , Gianluigi Liva , Deniz Gündüz

The multichannel rendezvous problem (MRP) is a critical challenge for neighbor discovery in IoT applications, requiring two users to find each other by hopping among available channels over time. This paper addresses the MRP in scenarios…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yi-Chia Cheng , Cheng-Shang Chang