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Massive Machine-Type Communications (MTC) over cellular networks is expected to be an integral part of wireless "Smart City" applications. The Long Term Evolution (LTE)/LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) technology is a major candidate for provisioning…
In machine-type communication (MTC), a group of devices or sensors may need to send their data packets with certain access delay limits for delay-sensitive applications or real-time Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications. In this case,…
Herein, we consider the problem of cooperative multi-access in the presence of overlapped coverage areas. Assuming a frameless ALOHA transmission scheme, we derive exact analytical throughput expressions for throughput in the aforementioned…
For wireless systems in which randomly arriving devices attempt to transmit a fixed payload to a central receiver, we develop a framework to characterize the system throughput as a function of arrival rate and per-user data rate. The…
There is a growing interest in the transition from 4-step random access to 2-step random access in machine-type communication (MTC), since 2-step random access is well-suited to short message delivery in various Internet of Things (IoT)…
To efficiently utilize the scarce wireless resource, the random access scheme has been attaining renewed interest primarily in supporting the sporadic traffic of a large number of devices encountered in the Internet of Things (IoT). In this…
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been considered as a promising solution for improving the spectrum efficiency of next-generation wireless networks. In this paper, the performance of a p-persistent slotted ALOHA system in support…
The Internet of things (IoT), which is the network of physical devices embedded with sensors, actuators, and connec- tivity, is being accelerated into the mainstream by the emergence of 5G wireless networking. This paper presents an…
In nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA), the power difference of multiple signals is exploited for multiple access and successive interference cancellation (SIC) is employed at a receiver to mitigate co-channel interference. Thus, NOMA is…
Preamble collision in the random access channel (RACH) is a major bottleneck in massive machine-type communication (mMTC) scenarios, typical of cellular IoT (CIoT) deployments. This work proposes a machine learning-based mechanism for early…
In this paper, a network comprising wireless devices equipped with buffers transmitting deadline-constrained data packets over a slotted-ALOHA random-access channel is studied. Although communication protocols facilitating retransmissions…
Although the idea of using wireless links for covering large areas is not new, the advent of LPWANs has recently started changing the game. Simple, robust, narrowband modulation schemes permit the implementation of low-cost radio devices…
We consider a relay-aided Slotted ALOHA solution for uplink random access for an Optical Wireless Communications (OWC)-based Internet of Things (IoT). The first phase of uplink, the one between IoT devices and the relays, is realized using…
A cross-layer scheme, namely ALOHA With Collision Resolution (ALOHA-CR), is proposed for high throughput wireless communications in a cellular scenario. Transmissions occur in a time-slotted ALOHA-type fashion but with an important…
The capacity of wireless networks is fundamentally limited by interference. However, little research has focused on the interference correlation, which may greatly increase the local delay (namely the number of time slots required for a…
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…
Proliferation of the urban Internet-of-Things (IoTs) for smart cities has fuelled massive amounts of data over wireless cellular networks. Random access (RA) system of wireless cellular networks, e.g., 5G New Radio (NR), based on S-ALOHA…
Slotted ALOHA (SA) algorithms with Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) decoding have received significant attention lately due to their ability to dramatically increase the throughput of traditional SA. Motivated by increased density…
The exploitation of vehicles as mobile sensors acts as a catalyst for novel crowdsensing-based applications such as intelligent traffic control and distributed weather forecast. However, the massive increases in Machine-type Communication…
We study medium access in FMCW radar networks. We assume that all the radars use same parameters, e.g., chirp duration, chirp slope, cutoff frequency, number of chirps per packet, etc, and propose and analyze slotted ALOHA and CSMA…