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Support massive connectivity is an important requirement in 5G wireless communication system. For massive Machine Type Communication (MTC) scenario, since the network is expected to accommodate a massive number of MTC devices with sparse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Yanlun Wu , Jun Fang

This two-part paper considers an uplink massive device communication scenario in which a large number of devices are connected to a base-station (BS), but user traffic is sporadic so that in any given coherence interval, only a subset of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Liang Liu , Wei Yu

There is an increasing demand of massive machine-type communication (mMTC) to provide scalable access for a large number of devices, which has prompted extensive investigation on grant-free massive random access (RA) in 5G and beyond…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-13 Xinyu Bian , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

In this paper, we study the problem of user activity detection and large-scale fading coefficient estimation in a random access wireless uplink with a massive MIMO base station with a large number $M$ of antennas and a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Alexander Fengler , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

In massive machine-type communications, data transmission is usually considered sporadic, and thus inherently has a sparse structure. This paper focuses on the joint activity detection (AD) and channel estimation (CE) problems in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ye Xue , An Liu , Yang Li , Qingjiang Shi , Vincent Lau

In this letter, we study the joint device activity and delay detection problem in asynchronous massive machine-type communications (mMTC), where all active devices asynchronously transmit their preassigned preamble sequences to the base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Zhaorui Wang , Ya-Feng Liu , Liang Liu

Activity detection is an important task in the next generation grant-free multiple access. While there are a number of existing algorithms designed for this purpose, they mostly require precise information about the network, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Hao Zhang , Qingfeng Lin , Yang Li , Lei Cheng , Yik-Chung Wu

In massive machine-type communication (mMTC) applications, a key challenge is joint device activity detection and channel estimation (JADCE) under grant-free random access, as a massive number of devices with sporadic traffic seek to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Esa Ollila , Majdoddin Esfandiari , Daniel P. Palomar

This paper studies reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted device activity detection for grant-free (GF) uplink transmission in wireless communication networks. In particular, we consider mobile devices located in an area where…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Friedemann Laue , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober

This paper considers joint device activity detection and channel estimation in Internet of Things (IoT) networks, where a large number of IoT devices exist but merely a random subset of them become active for short-packet transmission at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Qipeng Wang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Francis C. M. Lau

Grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access has been regarded as a viable approach to accommodate access for a massive number of machine-type devices with small data packets. The sporadic activation of the devices creates a multiuser setup…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-15 Yanna Bai , Wei Chen , Bo Ai , Petar Popovski

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) are fundamental to the Internet of Things (IoT) framework in future wireless networks, involving the connection of a vast number of devices with sporadic transmission patterns. Traditional device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Xinjue Wang , Esa Ollila , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

This paper presents several analytic closed-form approximations of the aggregated interference statistics within the framework of uplink massive machine-type communications (mMTC), taking into account the random activity of the sensors.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Sergi Liesegang , Antonio Pascual-Iserte , Olga Muñoz

Grant-free random access (GF-RA) is a promising access technique for massive machine-type communications (mMTC) in future wireless networks, particularly in the context of 5G and beyond (6G) systems. Within the context of GF-RA, this study…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Ali Elkeshawy , Haifa Fares , Amor Nafkha

Massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC) is a key service category in the current generation of wireless networks featuring an extremely high density of energy and resource-limited devices with sparse and sporadic activity patterns. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jyotish Robin , Elza Erkip

The spatial diversity and multiplexing advantages of massive multi-input-multi-output (mMIMO) can significantly improve the capacity of massive non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in machine type communications. However, state-of-the-art…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-17 Yueqing Wang , Yikun Mei , Zhen Gao , Ziwei Wan , Boyu Ning , De Mi , Sami Muhaidat

Existing wireless communication systems have been mainly designed to provide substantial gain in terms of data rates. However, 5G and Beyond will depart from this scheme, with the objective not only to provide services with higher data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Mostafa Mohammadkarimi , Octavia A. Dobre , Moe Z. Win

Massive machine-type communication (MTC) is expected to play a key role in supporting Internet of Things (IoT) applications such as smart cities, smart factory, and connected vehicles through cellular networks. MTC is characterized by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Jinho Choi , Jie Ding , Ngoc Phuc Le , Zhiguo Ding

This paper considers the joint channel estimation and device activity detection in the grant-free random access systems, where a large number of Internet-of-Things devices intend to communicate with a low-earth orbit satellite in a sporadic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-10 Boxiao Shen , Yongpeng Wu , Jianping An , Chengwen Xing , Lian Zhao , Wenjun Zhang

This paper provides a solution for the activity detection and channel estimation problem in grant-free access with correlated device activity patterns. In particular, we consider a machine-type communications (MTC) network operating in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Hamza Djelouat , Mikko J. Sillanpää , Markku Juntti