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In 5G and future generation wireless systems, massive IoT networks with bursty traffic are expected to co-exist with cellular systems to serve several latency-critical applications. Thus, it is important for the access points to identify…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-05 Jyotish Robin , Elza Erkip

The rapid proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices introduces significant security challenges due to limited visibility and weak device-level guarantees. Accurate and timely identification of devices is essential for enforcing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Alex Ciechonski , Fabio Palmese , Alessandro E. C. Redondi , Anna Maria Mandalari

This paper considers a challenging scenario of machine type communications, where we assume internet of things (IoT) devices send short packets sporadically to an access point (AP) and the devices are not synchronized in the packet level.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yuanyuan Zhang , Zhengdao Yuan , Qinghua Guo , Zhongyong Wang , Jiangtao Xi , Yanguang Yu , Yonghui Li

In this paper, we investigate the joint generalized channel estimation and device identification problem in Internet of Things (IoT) networks {under multipath propagation}. To fully utilize the received signal, we decompose the generalized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Qi Wu , Zeping Sui , Hien Quoc Ngo , Qun Wan , Michail Matthaiou

Internet of Things (IoT) device localization is fundamental to smart home functionalities, including indoor navigation and tracking of individuals. Traditional localization relies on relative methods utilizing the positions of anchors…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Yan Li , Jie Yang , Shang-Ling Shih , Wan-Ting Shih , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

This paper considers the massive connectivity application in which a large number of potential devices communicate with a base-station (BS) in a sporadic fashion. The detection of device activity pattern together with the estimation of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Zhilin Chen , Foad Sohrabi , Wei Yu

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Taehyeun Park , Walid Saad

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

We propose a distributed algorithm for time synchronization in mobile wireless sensor networks. Each node can employ the algorithm to estimate the global time based on its local clock time. The problem of time synchronization is formulated…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-12-30 Chenda Liao , Prabir Barooah

In this paper, we address the problem of simultaneous classification and estimation of hidden parameters in a sensor network with communications constraints. In particular, we consider a network of noisy sensors which measure a common…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2012-06-19 Fabio Fagnani , Sophie M. Fosson , Chiara Ravazzi

There is a surge of need for fresh information with the overwhelming proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) applications. To characterize the information freshness perceived by the destination, the age of information (AoI) has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xijun Wang , Shuying Gan , Yanzhi Huang , Xiaoyu Zhao , Chao Xu , Xiang Chen

Advances in sensing, networking, and actuation technologies have resulted in the IoT wave that is expected to revolutionize all aspects of modern society. This paper focuses on the new challenges of privacy that arise in IoT in the context…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Nisha Panwar , Shantanu Sharma , Guoxi Wang , Sharad Mehrotra , Nalini Venkatasubramanian

The neighbor discovery paradigm finds wide application in Internet of Things networks, where the number of active devices is orders of magnitude smaller than the total device population. Designing low-complexity schemes for asynchronous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-05 Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Dongning Guo

Energy harvesting is a promising technology for the Internet of Things (IoT) towards the goal of self-sustainability of the involved devices. However, the intermittent and unreliable nature of the harvested energy demands an intelligent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-03 Chiara Pielli , Cedomir Stefanovic , Petar Popovski , Michele Zorzi

Reliable and prompt identification of active users is critical for enabling random access in massive machine-to-machine type networks which typically operate within stringent access delay and energy constraints. In this paper, an energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Jyotish Robin , Elza Erkip

In this paper, channel estimation and data detection for multihop relaying orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system is investigated under time-varying channel. Different from previous works, which highly depend on the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-05-25 Rui Min , 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

Modern wireless machine-to-machine-type communications aim to provide both ultra reliability and low latency, stringent requirements that appear to be mutually exclusive. From the noisy channel coding theorem, we know that reliable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Diego Barragán Guerrero , Minh Au , Ghyslain Gagnon , François Gagnon , Pascal Giard

With the widespread adoption of Internet of Things (IoT), billions of everyday objects are being connected to the Internet. Effective management of these devices to support reliable, secure and high quality applications becomes challenging…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Lei Bai , Lina Yao , Salil S. Kanhere , Xianzhi Wang , Zheng Yang

This paper studies data aggregation in large-scale regularly deployed Internet of Things (IoT) networks, where devices generate synchronized time-triggered traffic (e.g., measurements or updates). The data granularity, in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Yasser Nabil , Hesham ElSawy , Suhail Al-Dharrab , Hassan Mostafa , Hussein Attia