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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

Massive MIMO is considered a key enabler to support massive machine-type communication (mMTC). While massive access schemes have been extensively analyzed for co-located massive MIMO arrays, this paper explores activity detection in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Ali Elkeshawy , Haifa Fares , Amor Nafkha

This paper investigates the problem of activity detection and channel estimation in cooperative multi-cell massive access systems with temporally correlated activity, where all access points (APs) are connected to a central unit via…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Weifeng Zhu , Meixia Tao , Xiaojun Yuan , Fan Xu , Yunfeng Guan

The wireless channel is undergoing continuous changes, and the block-fading assumption, despite its popularity in theoretical contexts, never holds true in practical scenarios. This discrepancy is particularly critical for user activity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Jianan Bai , Erik G. Larsson

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

A great amount of endeavor has recently been devoted to activity detection for massive machine-type communications in cell-free massive MIMO. However, in practice, as the number of antennas at the access points (APs) increases, the Rayleigh…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Jingreng Lei , Yang Li , Zeyi Ren , Qingfeng Lin , Ziyue Wang , Ya-Feng Liu , Yik-Chung Wu

Device activity detection is one main challenge in grant-free massive access, which is recently proposed to support massive machine-type communications (mMTC). Existing solutions for device activity detection fail to consider inter-cell…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Dongdong Jiang , Ying Cui

Future wireless networks need to support massive machine type communication (mMTC) where a massive number of devices accesses the network and massive MIMO is a promising enabling technology. Massive access schemes have been studied for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Unnikrishnan Kunnath Ganesan , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

Massive access is one of the main use cases of beyond 5G (B5G) wireless networks and massive MIMO is a key technology for supporting it. Prior works studied massive access in the co-located massive MIMO framework. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Unnikrishnan Kunnath Ganesan , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

We develop a new algorithm for activity detection for grant-free multiple access in distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). The algorithm is a distributed version of the approximate message passing (AMP) based on a soft…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Jianan Bai , Erik G. Larsson

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

Grant-free random access (RA) has been recognized as a promising solution to support massive connectivity due to the removal of the uplink grant request procedures. While most endeavours assume perfect synchronization among users and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Xinyu Bian , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

A great amount of endeavor has recently been devoted to activity detection for massive machine-type communications in cell-free multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. However, as the number of antennas at the access points (APs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Jingreng Lei , Yang Li , Ziyue Wang , Qingfeng Lin , Ya-Feng Liu , Yik-Chung Wu

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

This paper proposes a computationally efficient algorithm to solve the joint data and activity detection problem for massive random access with massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). The BS acquires the active devices and their data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Ziyue Wang , Zhilin Chen , Ya-Feng Liu , Foad Sohrabi , Wei Yu

Device activity detection is one main challenge in grant-free random access, which is recently proposed to support massive access for massive machine-type communications (mMTC). Existing solutions fail to consider interference generated by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Dongdong Jiang , Ying Cui

Resource allocation and multiple access schemes are instrumental for the success of communication networks, which facilitate seamless wireless connectivity among a growing population of uncoordinated and non-synchronized users. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Sajad Daei , Saeed Razavikia , Marios Kountouris , Mikael Skoglund , Gabor Fodor , Carlo Fischione

Device activity detection in the emerging cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems has been recognized as a crucial task in machine-type communications, in which multiple access points (APs) jointly identify the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yang Li , Qingfeng Lin , Ya-Feng Liu , Bo Ai , Yik-Chung Wu

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 the massive machine-type communication (mMTC) scenario, a large number of devices with sporadic traffic need to access the network on limited radio resources. While grant-free random access has emerged as a promising mechanism for…

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