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This paper provides a solution for the activity detection and channel estimation problem in grant-free access with correlated device activity patterns. In particular, we consider a machine-type communications (MTC) network operating in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Hamza Djelouat , Mikko J. Sillanpää , Markku Juntti

In multi-task remote inference systems, an intelligent receiver (e.g., command center) performs multiple inference tasks (e.g., target detection) using data features received from several remote sources (e.g., edge devices). Key challenges…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Md Kamran Chowdhury Shisher , Adam Piaseczny , Yin Sun , Christopher G. Brinton

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

The main challenge of massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is the joint activity and signal detection of devices. The mMTC scenario with many devices transmitting data intermittently at low data rates and via very short packets…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-28 R. B. Di Renna , R. C. de Lamare

Resource allocation and multiple access schemes are instrumental for the success of communication networks, which facilitate seamless wireless connectivity among a growing population of uncoordinated and non-synchronized users. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Sajad Daei , Saeed Razavikia , Marios Kountouris , Mikael Skoglund , Gabor Fodor , Carlo Fischione

Massive connectivity supports the sporadic access of a vast number of devices without requiring prior permission from the base station (BS). In such scenarios, the BS must perform joint activity detection and channel estimation (JADCE)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Chang Cai , Wenjun Jiang , Xiaojun Yuan , Ying-Jun Angela Zhang

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

We consider unsourced random access (uRA) in a cell-free (CF) user-centric wireless network, where a large number of potential users compete for a random access slot, while only a finite subset is active. The random access users transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Burak Çakmak , Eleni Gkiouzepi , Manfred Opper , Giuseppe Caire

Device activity detection in the emerging cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems has been recognized as a crucial task in machine-type communications, in which multiple access points (APs) jointly identify the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yang Li , Qingfeng Lin , Ya-Feng Liu , Bo Ai , 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

We propose a novel joint activity, channel, and data estimation (JACDE) scheme for cell-free multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems compliant with fifth-generation (5G) new radio (NR) orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-29 Hiroki Iimori , Takumi Takahashi , Koji Ishibashi , Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu , Wei Yu

In this letter, we study the joint device activity and delay detection problem in asynchronous massive machine-type communications (mMTC), where all active devices asynchronously transmit their preassigned preamble sequences to the base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Zhaorui Wang , Ya-Feng Liu , Liang Liu

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

Device activity detection is one main challenge in grant-free random access, which is recently proposed to support massive access for massive machine-type communications (mMTC). Existing solutions fail to consider interference generated by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Dongdong Jiang , Ying Cui

Data aggregation is a promising approach to enable massive machine-type communication (mMTC). Here, we first characterize the aggregation phase where a massive number of machine-type devices transmits to their respective aggregator. By…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Onel L. Alcaraz López , Hirley Alves , Pedro H. J. Nardelli , Matti Latva-aho

Modern sensing systems generate heterogeneous updates ranging from small status packets to large data objects. We study a single-hop wireless uplink network where sensors generate updates at will, each consisting of a sensor dependent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Aniket Mukherjee , Joy Kuri , Chandramani Singh

In future wireless networks, one fundamental challenge for massive machine-type communications (mMTC) lies in the reliable support of massive connectivity with low latency. Against this background, this paper proposes a compressive sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Malong Ke , Zhen Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Xiangming Meng

We develop a new algorithm for activity detection for grant-free multiple access in distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). The algorithm is a distributed version of the approximate message passing (AMP) based on a soft…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Jianan Bai , Erik G. Larsson

Massive grant-free transmission and cell-free wireless communication systems have emerged as pivotal enablers for massive machine-type communication. This paper proposes a deep-unfolding-based joint activity and data detection (DU-JAD)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Gangle Sun , Wenjin Wang , Wei Xu , Christoph Studer

Support massive connectivity is an important requirement in 5G wireless communication system. For massive Machine Type Communication (MTC) scenario, since the network is expected to accommodate a massive number of MTC devices with sparse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Yanlun Wu , Jun Fang