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The main challenges of cognitive radio include spectrum sensing at the physical (PHY) layer to detect the activity of primary users and spectrum sharing at the medium access control (MAC) layer to coordinate access among coexisting…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Jaeok Park , Mihaela van der Schaar

In this paper, we derive new closed-form expressions for the gradient of the mutual information with respect to arbitrary parameters of the two-user multiple access channel (MAC). The derived relations generalize the fundamental relation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-07 Samah A. M. Ghanem

This work investigates the general two-user Compound Broadcast Channel (BC) where an encoder wishes to transmit common and private messages to two receivers while being oblivious to two possible channel realizations controlling the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Meryem Benammar , Pablo Piantanida , Shlomo Shamai

Adder MAC is a simple noiseless multiple-access channel (MAC), where if users send messages $X_1,\ldots,X_h\in \{0,1\}^n$, then the receiver receives $Y = X_1+\cdots+X_h$ with addition over $\mathbb{Z}$. Communication over the noiseless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Yuzhou Gu

This paper studies an almost-lossless source-channel coding scheme in which source messages are assigned to different classes and encoded with a channel code that depends on the class index. The code performance is analyzed by means of…

Communication efficiency is of importance for wireless federated learning systems. In this paper, we propose a communication-efficient strategy for federated learning over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) multiple access channels…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Yo-Seb Jeon , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Namyoon Lee

Compute-forward multiple access (CFMA) is a transmission strategy which allows the receiver in a multiple access channel (MAC) to first decode linear combinations of the transmitted signals and then solve for individual messages. Compared…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Lanwei Zhang , Jamie Evans , Jingge Zhu

This work focuses on distributed linear precoding when users transmit correlated information over a fading Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output Multiple Access Channel. Precoders are optimized in order to minimize the sum-Mean Square Error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 P. Suárez-Casal , J. P. González-Coma , O. Fresnedo , L. Castedo

The multiaccess coded caching (MACC) system, as formulated by Hachem {\it et al.}, consists of a central server with a library of $N$ files, connected to $K$ cache-less users via an error-free shared link, and $K$ cache nodes, each equipped…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Wenbo Huang , Minquan Cheng , Kai Wan , Xiaojun Li , Robert Caiming Qiu , Giuseppe Caire

This paper addresses the unsourced/uncoordinated random access problem in an integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system, with a focus on uplink multiple access code design. Recent theoretical advancements highlight that an ISAC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Kai-Kit Wong , Zaichen Zhang , Christos Masouros

We study the transmission of two correlated and memoryless sources $(U,V)$ over several multiple-user phase asynchronous channels. Namely, we consider a class of phase-incoherent multiple access relay channels (MARC) with both non-causal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-17 Hamidreza Ebrahimzadeh Saffar , Ehsan Haj Mirza Alian , Patrick Mitran

We study the problem of secure joint source-channel coding for multimodal semantic sources transmitted over noisy wiretap channels. The source model consists of $m$ modalities (e.g., image, audio, and sensor data), all represented as random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Denis Kozlov , Mahtab Mirmohseni , Rahim Tafazolli

In this paper, we consider the information-theoretic characterization of the set of achievable rates and distortions in a broad class of multiterminal communication scenarios with general continuous-valued sources and channels. A framework…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Farhad Shirani , S. Sandeep Pradhan

The channel capacity of near-field (NF) communications is characterized by considering three types of line-of-sight multiuser channels: i) multiple access channel (MAC), ii) broadcast channel (BC), and iii) multicast channel (MC). For NF…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Boqun Zhao , Chongjun Ouyang , Xingqi Zhang , Yuanwei Liu

In this paper, we propose a novel partition reservation system to study the partition information and its transmission over a noise-free Boolean multi-access channel. The objective of transmission is not message restoration, but to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Shuhang Wu , Shuangqing Wei , Yue Wang , Ramachandran Vaidyanathan , Jian Yuan

This paper investigates distributed source-channel coding for correlated image semantic transmission over wireless channels. In this setup, correlated images at different transmitters are separately encoded and transmitted through dedicated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yufei Bo , Meixia Tao , Kai Niu

We construct a joint coordination-channel polar coding scheme for strong coordination of actions between two agents $\mathsf X$ and $\mathsf Y$, which communicate over a discrete memoryless channel (DMC) such that the joint distribution of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-16 Sarah A. Obead , Jörg Kliewer , Badri N. Vellambi

Multi-agent pathfinding (MAPF) remains a critical problem in robotics and autonomous systems, where agents must navigate shared spaces efficiently while avoiding conflicts. Traditional centralized algorithms with global information provide…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Bharath Muppasani , Ritirupa Dey , Biplav Srivastava , Vignesh Narayanan

In distributed communication, each transmitter prepares an ensemble of channel codes. To encode a message, a transmitter chooses a channel code individually without sharing the coding choice with other transmitters or with the receiver.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Yanru Tang , Faeze Heydaryan , Jie Luo

Multi-antenna coded caching (CC) with multicast beamforming typically relies on a complex successive interference cancellation (SIC) structure to decode a superposition of multiple streams received by each user. Signal-level CC schemes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 MohammadJavad Sojdeh , MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tölli