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Existing wireless communication systems have been mainly designed to provide substantial gain in terms of data rates. However, 5G and Beyond will depart from this scheme, with the objective not only to provide services with higher data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Mostafa Mohammadkarimi , Octavia A. Dobre , Moe Z. Win

The Internet of Things paradigm heavily relies on a network of a massive number of machine-type devices (MTDs) that monitor various phenomena. Consequently, MTDs are randomly activated at different times whenever a change occurs. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Leatile Marata , Esa Ollila , Hirley Alves

Massive access has been challenging for the fifth generation (5G) and beyond since the abundance of devices causes communication overload to skyrocket. In an uplink massive access scenario, device traffic is sporadic in any given coherence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Shanshan Zhang , Ying Cui , Wen Chen

The wireless channel changes continuously with time and frequency and the block-fading assumption, which is popular in many theoretical analyses, never holds true in practical scenarios. This discrepancy is critical for user activity…

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

Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO is important for beyond 5G or 6G wireless communication networks. The goal of this paper is to establish successful communication between the cellular base stations and devices, focusing on the problem of joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-08 Yinchuan Li , Yuancheng Zhan , Le Zheng , Xiaodong Wang

This paper investigates the effect of low-resolution analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) on device activity detection in massive machine-type communications (mMTC). The low-resolution ADCs induce two challenges on the device activity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Zhaorui Wang , Ya-Feng Liu , Ziyue Wang , Liang Liu , Haoyuan Pan , Shuguang Cui

We study the Gaussian multiple access channel with random user activity, in the regime where the number of users is proportional to the code length. The receiver may know some statistics about the number of active users, but does not know…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xiaoqi Liu , Pablo Pascual Cobo , Ramji Venkataramanan

Grant-free random access and uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) have been introduced to reduce transmission latency and signaling overhead in massive machine-type communication (mMTC). In this paper, we propose two novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Thushan Sivalingam , Samad Ali , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-Aho

We analyze multiuser detection under the assumption that the number of users accessing the channel is unknown by the receiver. In this environment, users' activity must be estimated along with any other parameters such as data, power, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Adrià Tauste Campo , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas , Ezio Biglieri

Massive machine type communication (mMTC) has been identified as an important use case in Beyond 5G networks and future massive Internet of Things (IoT). However, for the massive multiple access in mMTC, there is a serious access preamble…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Gaofeng Cheng , Huan Chen , Pingzhi Fan , Li Li , Li Hao

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) in 6G requires supporting a massive number of devices with limited resources, posing challenges in efficient random access. Grant-free random access and uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Thushan Sivalingam , Samad Ali , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva Aho

In this paper, we study the problem of \textit{activity detection} (AD) in a massive MIMO setup, where the Base Station (BS) has $M \gg 1$ antennas. We consider a block fading channel model where the $M$-dim channel vector of each user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Saeid Haghighatshoar , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

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

This paper considers massive access in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems and proposes an adaptive active user detection and channel estimation scheme based on compressive sensing. By exploiting the sporadic traffic of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-04 Malong Ke , Zhen Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Xiqi Gao , Robert Schober

This work presents a novel framework for random access in crowded scenarios of multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) systems. A multi-antenna base station (BS) and multiple single-antenna users are considered in these systems. A huge portion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Abolghasem Afshar , Vahid Tabataba Vakili , Sajad Daei

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Zhaoji Zhang , Ying Li , Lei Liu , Wei Hou

In this paper, a data-driven approach is proposed to jointly design the common sensing (measurement) matrix and jointly support recovery method for complex signals, using a standard deep auto-encoder for real numbers. The auto-encoder in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Wanqing Zhang , Shuaichao Li , Ying Cui

Multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are a prime candidate for use in massive connection density in machine-type communication (MTC) networks. One of the key challenges of MTC networks is to obtain accurate channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-25 Jiho Song , Byungju Lee , Song Noh , Jong-Ho Lee

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-01 Mehmood Alam , Qi Zhang

The fifth generation (5G) mobile networks are envisioned to support the deluge of data traffic with reduced energy consumption and improved quality of service (QoS) provision. To this end, the key enabling technologies, such as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Dantong Liu , Lifeng Wang , Yue Chen , Maged Elkashlan , Kai-Kit Wong , Robert Schober , Lajos Hanzo