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Random access is necessary in crowded scenarios due to the limitation of pilot sequences and the intermittent pattern of device activity. Nowadays, most of the related works are based on independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-19 Junyuan Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Fan Wei

A massive MIMO system, represented by a base station with hundreds of antennas, is capable of spatially multiplexing many devices and thus naturally suited to serve dense crowds of wireless devices in emerging applications, such as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-06 Elisabeth de Carvalho , Emil Björnson , Jesper H. Sørensen , Erik G. Larsson , Petar Popovski

Multiple access communication systems enable numerous users to share common communication resources, playing a crucial role in wireless networks. With the emergence of the sixth generation (6G) and beyond communication networks, supporting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Mert Ozates , Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Mohammad Kazemi , Deniz Gündüz , Tolga M. Duman

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

In this paper, we study the problem of user activity detection and large-scale fading coefficient estimation in a random access wireless uplink with a massive MIMO base station with a large number $M$ of antennas and a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Alexander Fengler , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

To account for the massive uncoordinated random access scenario, which is relevant for the Internet of Things, Polyanskiy (2017) proposed a novel formulation of the multiple-access problem, commonly referred to as unsourced multiple access,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Alejandro Lancho , Giuseppe Durisi , Alexandre Graell i Amat

We study a delay-constrained grant-free random access system with a multi-antenna base station. The users randomly generate data packets with expiration deadlines, which are then transmitted from data queues on a first-in first-out basis.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jianan Bai , Zheng Chen , Erik. G. Larsson

We present a novel access protocol for crowd scenarios in massive MIMO (Multiple-input multiple-output) systems. Crowd scenarios are characterized by a large number of users with intermittent access behavior, whereby orthogonal scheduling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Jesper H. Sørensen , Elisabeth de Carvalho , Čedomir Stefanović , Petar Popovski

This paper investigates asynchronous multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) massive unsourced random access (URA) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system over frequency-selective fading channels, with the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Tianya Li , Yongpeng Wu , Junyuan Gao , Wenjun Zhang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chengshan Xiao

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

Grant-free random access is promising for massive connectivity with sporadic transmissions in massive machine type communications (mMTC), where the hand-shaking between the access point (AP) and users is skipped, leading to high access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhengdao Yuan , Fei Liu , Qinghua Guo , Xiaojun Yuan , Zhongyong Wang , Yonghui Li

This paper investigates the maximal achievable rate for a given blocklength and error probability over quasi-static multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) fading channels, with and without channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Wei Yang , Giuseppe Durisi , Tobias Koch , Yury Polyanskiy

Unsourced random-access (U-RA) is a type of grant-free random access with a virtually unlimited number of users, of which only a certain number $K_a$ are active on the same time slot. Users employ exactly the same codebook, and the task of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Alexander Fengler , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

We investigate fully asynchronous unsourced random access (URA), and propose a high-performing scheme that employs on-off division multiple access (ODMA). In this scheme, active users distribute their data over the transmit block based on a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Mert Ozates , Mohammad Kazemi , Gianluigi Liva , Deniz Gündüz

The problem of uplink transmissions in massive connectivity is commonly dealt with using schemes for grant-free random access. When a large number of devices transmit almost synchronously, the receiver may not be able to resolve the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Ao Chen , Wei Chen , Bo Ai , Petar Popovski

Consider a random access communication scenario over a channel whose operation is defined for any number of possible transmitters. As in the model recently introduced by Polyanskiy for the Multiple Access Channel (MAC) with a fixed, known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Recep Can Yavas , Victoria Kostina , Michelle Effros

Wireless random access protocols are attracting a revived research interest as a simple yet effective solution for machine-type communications. In the quest to improve reliability and spectral efficiency of such schemes, the use of multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Andrea Munari , Federico Clazzer , Gianluigi Liva , Michael Heindlmaier

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 consider an extension of the massive unsourced random access originally proposed by Polyanskiy to the case where the receiver has a very large number of antennas (a massive MIMO base station) and no channel state information is given to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Alexander Fengler , Giuseppe Caire , Peter Jung , Saeid Haghighatshoar

Grant-free protocols exploiting compressed sensing (CS) multi-user detection (MUD) are appealing for solving the random access problem in massive machine-type communications (mMTC) with sporadic device activity. Such protocols would greatly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Onel L. A. López , Glauber Brante , Richard D. Souza , Markku Juntti , Matti Latva-aho