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Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is one of the main three focus areas in the 5th generation (5G) of mobile standards to enable connectivity of a massive number of internet of things (IoT) devices with little or no human…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-16 Muhammad Basit Shahab , Rana Abbas , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Sarah J. Johnson

In this paper, we propose a novel fully Bayesian approach for the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) massive unsourced random access (URA). The payload of each user device is coded by the sparse regression codes (SPARCs) without…

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

Current wireless networks are designed to optimize spectral efficiency for human users, who typically require sustained connections for high-data-rate applications like file transfers and video streaming. However, these networks are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kirill Andreev , Pavel Rybin , Alexey Frolov

A mega-constellation of low-altitude earth orbit (LEO) satellites (SATs) are envisaged to provide a global coverage SAT network in beyond fifth-generation (5G) cellular systems. LEO SAT networks exhibit extremely long link distances of many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Ju-Hyung Lee , Hyowoon Seo , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Young-Chai Ko

With the stringent requirements introduced by the new sixth-generation (6G) internet-of-things (IoT) use cases, traditional approaches to multiple access control have started to show their limitations. A new wave of grant-free (GF)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Alberto Rech , Stefano Tomasin , Lorenzo Vangelista , Cristina Costa

Grant-free (GF) transmission holds promise in terms of low latency communication by directly transmitting messages without waiting for any permissions. However, collision situations may frequently happen when limited spectrum is occupied by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Chao Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Zhijin Qin , Zhiguo Ding

This paper investigates the massive random access for a huge amount of user devices served by a base station (BS) equipped with a massive number of antennas. We consider a grant-free unsourced random access (U-RA) scheme where all users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Xinyu Xie , Yongpeng Wu , Junyuan Gao , Wenjun Zhang

Grant-free random access (GFRA) is now a popular protocol for large-scale wireless multiple access systems in order to reduce control signaling. Resource allocation in GFRA can be viewed as a form of frame slotted ALOHA, where a ubiquitous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Alix Jeannerot , Malcolm Egan , Jean-Marie Gorce

Grant-free multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) usually employs non-orthogonal pilots for joint user detection and channel estimation. However, existing methods are too complex for massive grant-free access in massive MIMO. This letter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Yihua Ma , Zhifeng Yuan , Weimin Li , Zhigang Li

We propose a decentralized receiver for extra-large multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) arrays. Our method operates with no central processing unit (CPU) and all the signal detection tasks are done in distributed nodes. We exploit a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-12 Abolfazl Amiri , Carles Navarro Manch'on , Elisabeth de Carvalho

Extra-large scale MIMO (XL-MIMO) is a key technology for meeting sixth-generation (6G) requirements for high-rate connectivity and uniform quality of service (QoS); however, its deployment is challenged by the prohibitive complexity of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Gabriel Avanzi Ubiali , José Carlos Marinello Filho , Taufik Abrão

Massive Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications (mURLLC), which integrates URLLC with massive access, is emerging as a new and important service class in the next generation (6G) for time-sensitive traffics and has recently received…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Yan Liu , Yansha Deng , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan , George K. Karagiannidis

This paper proposes a two-timescale transmission scheme for extremely large-scale (XL)-reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)-aided massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) systems considering visibility regions (VRs). The beamforming of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Luchu Li , Kangda Zhi , Cunhua Pan

The design of highly scalable multiple access schemes is a main challenge in the evolution towards future massive machine-type communications, where reliability and latency constraints must be ensured to a large number of uncoordinated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Lorenzo Valentini , Alberto Faedi , Marco Chiani , Enrico Paolini

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

Massive MIMO systems, where the base stations are equipped with hundreds of antennas, are an attractive way to handle the rapid growth of data traffic. As the number of users increases, the initial access and handover in contemporary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Luca Sanguinetti , Antonio A. D'Amico , Michele Morelli , Merouane Debbah

The industrial Internet of things (IIoT) is revolutionizing industrial processes by facilitating massive machine-type communications among countless interconnected devices. To efficiently handle the resulting large-scale and sporadic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Enrico Testi , Giulia Torcolacci , Nicolò Decarli , Davide Dardari , Enrico Paolini

Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems aim to expand the coverage area of wireless networks by replacing a single high-performance Access Point (AP) with multiple small, distributed APs connected to a Central Processing Unit (CPU) through a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Michail Gkagkos , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Costas N. Georghiades , Krishna R. Narayanan

The notion of a fast uplink grant is emerging as a promising solution for enabling massive machine type communications (MTCs) in the Internet of Things over cellular networks. By using the fast uplink grant, machine type devices (MTD) will…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Samad Ali , Nandana Rajatheva , Walid Saad

This paper proposes a novel pilot scheme for multi-user uplink channel estimation in extra-large-scale massive MIMO (XL-MIMO) systems with extremely large aperture arrays (ELAA). The large aperture of ELAA introduces spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Yumeng Zhang , Huayan Guo , Vincent Lau