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Machine-type communications (MTC) are expected to play an essential role within future 5G systems. In the FP7 project METIS, MTC has been further classified into "massive Machine-Type Communication" (mMTC) and "ultra-reliable Machine-Type…
Multiple access technology played an important role in wireless communication in the last decades: it increases the capacity of the channel and allows different users to access the system simultaneously. However, the conventional multiple…
In the 6G Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, unprecedented challenges will be raised to provide massive connectivity, ultra-low latency, and energy efficiency for ultra-dense IoT devices. To address these challenges, we explore the…
With the rapidly increasing number of bandwidth-intensive terminals capable of intelligent computing and communication, such as smart devices equipped with shallow neural network models, the complexity of multiple access for these…
Massive machine type communication (mMTC) is one of the basic components of the future fifth generation (5G) wireless communication system. In mMTC, the information processing at the sensor nodes is required to be simple, low power…
The Internet of Things (IoT) will encompass a massive number of machine type devices that must wirelessly transmit, in near real-time, a diverse set of messages sensed from their environment. Designing resource allocation schemes to support…
To date, group-oriented communications have been mainly exploited for delivering multimedia services in human-oriented communications while, in future fifth generation (5G) cellular networks, objects will be the main target. Internet of…
The enormous quality of service (QoS) demands posed by mission-critical use-cases of future 5G/6G wireless communication raise the need for resource-efficient highly reliable and low latency connectivity solutions. Multi-connectivity is…
The Fifth Generation (5G) of wireless networks introduced native support for Machine-Type Communication (MTC), which is a key enabler for the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution. Current 5G standards are not yet capable of fully satisfying…
Providing Internet connectivity to a massive number of Internet-of-things (IoT) objects over the unlicensed spectrum requires: (i) identifying a very large number of narrowband channels in a wideband spectrum and (ii) aggressively reusing…
We propose an enhanced random access (RA) with preamble-assisted short-packet transmissions to support cellular Internet-of-things (IoT) communications. A key feature of the proposed scheme is that the base station (e.g., eNodeB in LTE…
The next wave of wireless technologies will proliferate in connecting sensors, machines, and robots for myriad new applications, thereby creating the fabric for the Internet of Things (IoT). A generic scenario for IoT connectivity involves…
We propose a novel random multiple access (RMA) scheme with quality of service (QoS) guarantees for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. We consider a slotted uncoordinated data transmission period during which machine type…
This paper proposes a tractable solution for integrating non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) into massive machine-type communications (mMTC) to increase the uplink connectivity. Multiple transmit power levels are provided at the user end…
Compared to the generations up to 4G, whose main focus was on broadband and coverage aspects, 5G has expanded the scope of wireless cellular systems towards embracing two new types of connectivity: massive machine-type communication (mMTC)…
This paper proposes a novel memetic algorithm (MA) for the blind equalization of digital multiuser channels with Direct-Sequence / Code-Division Multiple-Access (DS/CDMA) sharing scheme. Equalization involves two different tasks, the…
Recently, non-orthogonal codes have been advocated for IoT massive access. Activity detection has been demonstrated to entail common support recovery in a jointly sparse multiple measurement vector (MMV) problem and MMV algorithms have been…
Using out-of-band (OOB) side-information has recently been shown to accelerate beam selection in single-user millimeter wave (mmWave) massive MIMO communications. In this paper, we propose a novel OOB-aided beam selection framework for a…
The thesis is dedicated to studying methods to improve the efficiency of random access schemes and to facilitate their deployment in machine-type communications (MTC). First, a joint user activity identification and channel estimation…
The massiveness of devices in crowded Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications brings new challenges to existing random-access (RA) schemes, such as heavy signaling overhead and severe access collisions. In order to reduce the signaling…