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In this paper, we design a novel two-phase unsourced random access (URA) scheme in massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO). In the first phase, we collect a sequence of information bits to jointly acquire the user channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Jia-Cheng Jiang , Hui-Ming Wang

The massive machine-type communication has been one of the most representative services for future wireless networks. It aims to support massive connectivity of user equipments (UEs) which sporadically transmit packets with small size. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Junyuan Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Wenjun Zhang

The 5th generation mobile communication systems aim to support massive access for future wireless applications. Unfortunately, wireless resource scarcity in random access (RA) is a fundamental bottleneck for enabling massive access. To…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Jie Ding , Daiming Qu , Hao Jiang , Tao Jiang

Presence of multiple antennas on both sides of a communication channel promises significant improvements in system throughput and power efficiency. In effect, a new class of large multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication systems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Maksym A. Girnyk , Mikko Vehkaperä , Lars K. Rasmussen

Massive machine-type communications protocols have typically been designed under the assumption that coordination between users requires significant communication overhead and is thus impractical. Recent progress in efficient activity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Justin Kang , Wei Yu

Unsourced random access (URA) is a particular form of grant-free uncoordinated random access wherein the users' identities are not associated to specific waveforms at the physical layer. Tensor-based modulation (TBM) has been recently…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Alberto Rech , Alexis Decurninge , Luis G. Ordóñez

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

The number of wireless devices is drastically increasing, resulting in many devices contending for radio resources. In this work, we present an algorithm to detect active devices for unsourced random access, i.e., the devices are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Gilles Callebaut , François Rottenberg , Liesbet Van der Perre , Erik G. Larsson

Massive MIMO is a promising technology to enable a massive number of Internet of Things nodes to transmit short and sporadic data bursts at low power. In conventional cellular networks, devices use a grant-based random access scheme to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Gilles Callebaut , Liesbet Van der Perre , François Rottenberg

This paper investigates the issue of cooperative activity detection for grant-free random access in the sixth-generation (6G) cell-free wireless networks with sourced and unsourced paradigms. First, we propose a cooperative framework for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Xiaodan Shao , Xiaoming Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

We discuss the problem of designing channel access architectures for enabling fast, low-latency, grant-free and uncoordinated uplink for densely packed wireless nodes. Specifically, we study random-access codes, previously introduced for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Suhas S Kowshik , Kirill Andreev , Alexey Frolov , Yury Polyanskiy

This paper proposes a unified semi-blind detection framework for sourced and unsourced random access (RA), which enables next-generation ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) with massive devices. Specifically, the active…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Malong Ke , Zhen Gao , Mingyu Zhou , Dezhi Zheng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , H. Vincent Poor

Grant-free access schemes are candidates to support future massive multiple access applications owing to their capability to reduce control signaling and latency. As a promising class of grant-free schemes, coded random access schemes can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Lorenzo Valentini , Marco Chiani , Enrico Paolini

Massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC) features a massive number of low-cost user equipments (UEs) with sparse activity. Tailor-made for these features, grant-free random access (GF-RA) serves as an efficient access solution for mMTC.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Zhaoji Zhang , Yuhao Chi , Qinghua Guo , Ying Li , Guanghui Song , Chongwen Huang

We study the problem of unsourced random access (URA) over Rayleigh block-fading channels with a receiver equipped with multiple antennas. We propose a slotted structure with multiple stages of orthogonal pilots, each of which is randomly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Mohammad Kazemi , Tolga M. Duman

We consider the unsourced random access problem with multiple receivers and propose a cell-free type solution for that. In our proposed scheme, the active users transmit their signals to the access points (APs) distributed in a geographical…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Mert Ozates , Mohammad Kazemi , Eduard Jorswieck , Deniz Gunduz

In this work, we discuss the problem of unsourced random access (URA) over a Gaussian multiple access channel (GMAC). To address the challenges posed by emerging massive machine-type connectivity, URA reframes multiple access as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Zhentian Zhang , Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Jian Dang , Kai-Kit Wong , Zaichen Zhang , Christos Masouros

We propose to operate massive multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) cellular base stations (BSs) in unlicensed bands. We denote such system as massive MIMO unlicensed (mMIMO-U). We design the key procedures required at a cellular BS to…

We investigate the coexistence of massive and critical Internet of Things (IoT) services in the context of the unsourced multiple access (UMA) framework introduced by Polyanskiy (2017), where all users employ a common codebook and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Petar Popovski , Anders E. Kalor , Beatriz Soret

In this paper, a novel uncoordinated random access (URA) protocol is presented to address the pressing demand for massive connectivity with low access latency in future massive machine type communication (mMTC) scenarios. The proposed URA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Pengyu Gao , Qu Luo , Jing Zhu , Gaojie Chen , Pei Xiao , Chuan Heng Foh