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In grant-free sparse code multiple access (GF-SCMA) system, active user detection (AUD) is a major performance bottleneck as it involves complex combinatorial problem, which makes joint design of contention resources for users and AUD at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-09 Minsig Han , Ameha T. Abebe , Chung G. Kang

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

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

In the upcoming Internet-of-Things (IoT) era, the communication is often featured by massive connection, sporadic transmission, and small-sized data packets, which poses new requirements on the delay expectation and resource allocation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Zhaoji Zhang , Ying Li , Chongwen Huang , Qinghua Guo , Chau Yuen , Yong Liang Guan

Modern wireless networks must reliably support a wide array of connectivity demands, encompassing various user needs across diverse scenarios. Machine-Type Communication (mMTC) is pivotal in these networks, particularly given the challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ali Elkeshawy , HaÏfa Farès , Amor Nafkha

This paper investigates a grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access (GF-NOMA) system in the presence of carrier frequency offsets. We propose two schemes for enumerating active users in such a GF-NOMA system, which is equivalent to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Takanori Hara

Grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access (GF-NOMA) is a potential technique to support massive Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communication (mURLLC) service. However, the dynamic resource configuration in GF-NOMA systems is challenging due…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Yan Liu , Yansha Deng , Hui Zhou , Maged Elkashlan , Arumugam Nallanathan

In this paper, we investigate a generative artificial intelligence (GAI)-assisted semantic communication framework for non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based image transmissions. Semantic users (SUs) extract cross-modal semantic…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Songhan Zhao , Shimin Gong , Bo Gu , Hongyang Du , Xidong Mu , Zehui Xiong , Yuming Fang

Semi-grant-free (Semi-GF) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) enables grant-free (GF) and grant-based (GB) users to share the same resource blocks, thereby balancing the connectivity and stability of communications. This letter analyzes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Chao Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Wenqiang Yi , Zhijin Qin , Zhiguo Ding

Cell-free communication has the potential to significantly improve grant-free transmission in massive machine-type communication, wherein multiple access points jointly serve a large number of user equipments to improve coverage and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Gangle Sun , Mengyao Cao , Wenjin Wang , Wei Xu , Christoph Studer

Uplink (UL) dominated sporadic transmission and stringent latency requirement of massive machine type communication (mMTC) forces researchers to abandon complicated grant-acknowledgment based legacy networks. UL grant-free non-orthogonal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Shah Mahdi Hasan , Kaushik Mahata , Md Mashud Hyder

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

We propose a novel generalized framework for grant-free random-access (GFRA) in cell-free massive multiple input multiple-output systems where multiple geographically separated access points (APs) or base stations (BSs) aim to detect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Sai Subramanyam Thoota , Erik G. Larsson

In this paper, we consider the problem of activity detection in grant-free code-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). We focus on performing activity detection via subspace methods under a setup where the data and pilot spreading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Bashar Tahir , Stefan Schwarz , Markus Rupp

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is an interesting technology that enables massive connectivity as required in future 5G and 6G networks. While purely linear processing already achieves good performance in NOMA systems, in certain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Daniel Schäufele , Guillermo Marcus , Nikolaus Binder , Matthias Mehlhose , Alexander Keller , Sławomir Stańczak

Grant-free transmission is an important feature to be supported by future wireless networks since it reduces the signalling overhead caused by conventional grant-based schemes. However, for grant-free transmission, the number of users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober , Pingzhi Fan , H. Vincent Poor

This paper introduces a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted grant-free non-orthogonal multiple-access (GF-NOMA) scheme. To ensure the power reception disparity required by the power domain NOMA (PD-NOMA), we propose a joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Recep Akif Tasci , Fatih Kilinc , Abdulkadir Celik , Asmaa Abdallah , Ahmed M. Eltawil , Ertugrul Basar

In this paper, we propose a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-based communication framework that allows machine type devices (MTDs) to access the network while avoiding congestion. The proposed technique is a 2-step mechanism that first…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Manal El Tanab , Walaa Hamouda

Faced with the massive connection, sporadic transmission, and small-sized data packets in future cellular communication, a grant-free non-orthogonal random access (NORA) system is considered in this paper, which could reduce the access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Zhaoji Zhang , Ying Li , Chongwen Huang , Qinghua Guo , Chau Yuen , Yong Liang Guan

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