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Grant-free random access in massive machine-type communications enables low-latency connectivity with minimal signaling. However, sporadic device activation requires efficient device activity detection. We propose a federated learning-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Ali Elkeshawy , Ibrahim Al Ghosh , Haifa Fares , Amor Nafkha

Internet of Things (IoT) has triggered a rapid increase in the number of connected devices and new use cases of wireless communications. To meet the new demands, the fifth generation (5G) of wireless communication systems features native…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-28 Leatile Marata , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , Eduardo Noboro Tominaga , Hirley Alves

The central challenge in massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is to connect a large number of uncoordinated devices through a limited spectrum. The typical mMTC communication pattern is sporadic, with short packets. This could be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Yanna Bai , Wei Chen , Feifei Sun , Bo Ai , Petar Popovski

In this paper, we propose a turbo receiver for joint activity detection and data decoding in grant-free massive random access, which iterates between a detector and a belief propagation (BP)-based channel decoder. Specifically, responsible…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-21 Xinyu Bian , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

Massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC) are one of the three types of services that should be supported by 5G networks. These are distinguished by the need to serve a large number of devices which are characterized by nonintensive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Fidan Mehmeti , Thomas F. La Porta

Inspired by group testing algorithms and the coded computation paradigm, we propose and analyze a novel multiple access scheme for detecting active users in large-scale networks. The scheme consists of a simple randomized detection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Matthias Frey , Igor Bjelaković , Sławomir Stańczak

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) networks have recently emerged as a promising solution to tackle the challenges arising from next-generation massive machine-type communications. In this paper, a fully grant-free deep learning (DL)-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Muhammad Usman Khan , Enrico Testi , Marco Chiani , Enrico Paolini

In random-access communication systems, the number of active users varies with time, and has considerable bearing on receiver's performance. Thus, techniques aimed at identifying not only the information transmitted, but also that number,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ezio Biglieri , Marco Lops

This paper proposes a computationally efficient algorithm to solve the joint data and activity detection problem for massive random access with massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). The BS acquires the active devices and their data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Ziyue Wang , Zhilin Chen , Ya-Feng Liu , Foad Sohrabi , Wei Yu

In this letter, we propose a joint active device detection and channel estimation framework based on factor graphs for asynchronous uplink grant-free massive multiple-antenna systems. We then develop the message-scheduling GAMP (MSGAMP)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-10 R. B. Di Renna , R. C. de Lamare

This two-part paper aims to quantify the cost of device activity detection in an uplink massive connectivity scenario with a large number of devices but device activities are sporadic. Part I of this paper shows that in an asymptotic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Liang Liu , Wei Yu

This paper studies the user activity detection and channel estimation problem in a temporally-correlated massive access system where a very large number of users communicate with a base station sporadically and each user once activated can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Weifeng Zhu , Meixia Tao , Xiaojun Yuan , Yunfeng Guan

This paper investigates the issue of cooperative activity detection for grant-free random access in the sixth-generation (6G) cell-free wireless networks with sourced and unsourced paradigms. First, we propose a cooperative framework for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Xiaodan Shao , Xiaoming Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) are fundamental to the Internet of Things (IoT) framework in future wireless networks, involving the connection of a vast number of devices with sporadic transmission patterns. Traditional device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Xinjue Wang , Esa Ollila , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

Massive machine type communication (mMTC) is one of the three fifth generation mobile networking (5G) key usage scenarios, which is characterized by a very large number of connected devices typically transmitting a relatively low volume of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-05-11 Feilong Wang , Yuyan Zhang , Hui Zhao , Hanyuan Huang , Jing Li

Recently, grant-free transmission paradigm has been introduced for massive Internet of Things (IoT) networks to save both time and bandwidth and transmit the message with low latency. In order to accurately decode the message of each device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-04 Mehrtash Mehrabi , Mostafa Mohammadkarimi , Masoud Ardakani

This paper investigates the grant-free random access with massive IoT devices. By embedding the data symbols in the signature sequences, joint device activity detection and data decoding can be achieved, which, however, significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Jialin Dong , Jun Zhang , Yuanming Shi , Jessie Hui Wang

In this paper, we investigate an unsourced random access scheme for massive machine-type communications (mMTC) in the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks with sporadic data traffic. Firstly, we establish a general framework for massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Feiyan Tian , Xiaoming Chen , Lei Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

The number of wireless devices is drastically increasing, resulting in many devices contending for radio resources. In this work, we present an algorithm to detect active devices for unsourced random access, i.e., the devices are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Gilles Callebaut , François Rottenberg , Liesbet Van der Perre , Erik G. Larsson

Most existing studies on joint activity detection and channel estimation for grant-free massive random access (RA) systems assume perfect synchronization among all active users, which is hard to achieve in practice. Therefore, this paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Xinyu Bian , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang