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Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is a promising multiuser communication technique for the enabling of future massive machine-type networks. Unlike existing codebook design schemes assuming uniform power allocation, we present a novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Xudong Li , Zhicheng Gao , Yiming Gui , Zilong Liu , Pei Xiao , Lisu Yu

This paper considers a simple on-off random multiple access channel, where n users communicate simultaneously to a single receiver over m degrees of freedom. Each user transmits with probability lambda, where typically lambda n < m << n,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-03-09 Alyson K. Fletcher , Sundeep Rangan , Vivek K Goyal

Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN) enable the disaggregation of radio access functions and the deployment of control applications across different timescales. However, designing interoperable control schemes that jointly exploit long-term…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Anastasios Giannopoulos , Sotirios Spantideas , Maria Lamprini Bartsioka , Panagiotis Trakadas

This work considers unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks for collecting data covertly from ground users. The full-duplex UAV intends to gather critical information from a scheduled user (SU) through wireless communication and generate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-21 Xiaobo Zhou , Shihao Yan , Feng Shu , Riqing Chen , Jun Li

This paper investigates the resource management problem in multi-carrier rate-splitting multiple access (MC-RSMA) systems with imperfect channel state information (CSI) and successive interference cancellation (SIC) for ultra-reliable and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Xiaoyu Ou , Shuping Dang , Zhihan Ren , Angela Doufexi

Unsourced random access (URA) has emerged as a candidate paradigm for massive machine-type communication (MTC) in next-generation wireless networks. While many excellent uplink schemes have been developed for URA, these schemes do not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Jamison R. Ebert , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland

A multi-level random power transmit strategy that is used in conjunction with a random access protocol (RAP) (e.g. ALOHA, IRSA) is proposed to fundamentally increase the throughput in a distributed communication network. A SIR model is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Akshit Kumar , Parikshit Hegde , Rahul Vaze , Amira Alloum , Cédric Adjih

This study focuses on (traditional and unsourced) multiple-access communication over a single transmit and multiple ($M$) receive antennas. We assume full or partial channel state information (CSI) at the receiver. It is known that to fully…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Alexander Fengler , Alejandro Lancho , Yury Polyanskiy

Spectrally-efficient secure non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has recently attained a substantial research interest for fifth generation development. This work explores crucial security issue in NOMA which is stemmed from utilizing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Sapna Thapar , Deepak Mishra , Ravikant Saini

Stochastic Gradient Descent has been widely studied with classification accuracy as a performance measure. However, these stochastic algorithms cannot be directly used when non-decomposable pairwise performance measures are used such as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-12-07 Soham Dan , Dushyant Sahoo

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

This paper considers a general framework for massive random access based on sparse superposition coding. We provide guidelines for the code design and propose the use of constant-weight codes in combination with a dictionary design based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Patrick Agostini , Zoran Utkovski , Alexis Decurninge , Maxime Guillaud , Slawomir Stanczak

This paper considers a random access system where each sender can be in two modes of operation, active or not active, and where the set of active users is available to a common receiver only. Active transmitters encode data into independent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Paolo Minero , Massimo Franceschetti , David N. C. Tse

Motivated by hyper-reliable low-latency communication in 6G, we consider error control coding for short block lengths in multi-antenna fading channels. In general, the channel fading coefficients are unknown at both the transmitter and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Sai Dinesh Kancharana , Madhusudan Kumar Sinha , Arun Pachai Kannu

Wi-Fi networks have long relied on the Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) mechanism, allowing stations to compete for transmission opportunities. However, as networks become denser and emerging applications demand lower latency and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Douglas Dziedzorm Agbeve , Andrey Belogaev , Jeroen Famaey

Future 5G cellular networks supporting ultra-reliable, low-latency communications (URLLC) could employ random access communication to reduce the overhead compared to scheduled access techniques used in 4G networks. We consider a wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Derya Malak , Howard Huang , Jeffrey G. Andrews

In order to overcome the inherent latency in multi-user unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks with orthogonal multiple access (OMA). In this paper, we investigate the UAV enabled uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network, where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-27 Jinhui Lu , Yuntian Wang , Tingting Liu , Zhihong Zhuang , Xiaobo Zhou , Feng Shu , Zhu Han

In this paper, a random access scheme is introduced which relies on the combination of packet erasure correcting codes and successive interference cancellation (SIC). The scheme is named coded slotted ALOHA. A bipartite graph representation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Enrico Paolini , Gianluigi Liva , Marco Chiani

In Sequential Massive Random Access (SMRA), a set of correlated sources is jointly encoded and stored on a server, and clients want to access to only a subset of the sources. Since the number of simultaneous clients can be huge, the server…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Elsa Dupraz , Thomas Maugey , Aline Roumy , Michel Kieffer

Most existing studies on joint activity detection and channel estimation for grant-free massive random access (RA) systems assume perfect synchronization among all active users, which is hard to achieve in practice. Therefore, this paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Xinyu Bian , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang