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Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) is an emerging flexible and powerful multiple access for downlink multiantenna networks. In this paper, we introduce the concept of RSMA into short-packet downlink communications. We design optimal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Yunnuo Xu , Yijie Mao , Onur Dizdar , Bruno Clerckx

Next generation wireless networks require massive uplink connections as well as high spectral efficiency. It is well known that, theoretically, it is not possible to achieve the sum capacity of multi-user communications with orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Hyunsoo Kim , Yeon-Geun Lim , Chan-Byoung Chae , Daesik Hong

In this paper, a novel variation of codeword position index based sparse code multiple access (CPI-SCMA) system, which is termed as hybrid codeword position index modulated sparse code multiple access (HCPI-SCMA), is proposed to further…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-30 Ke Lai , Jing Lei , Lei Wen , Gaojie Chen , Pei Xiao , Amine Maaref

This work investigates a full-duplex (FD)-enhanced Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) system under practical constraints, including imperfect channel state information (CSI) and successive interference cancellation (SIC). We derive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Farjam Karim , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Deepak Kumar , Arthur Sousa de Sena , Matti-Latva-aho

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) are poised to provide ubiquitous connectivity for billions of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. However, the required low-latency massive access necessitates a paradigm shift in the design of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Yikun Mei , Zhen Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Wei Chen , Jun Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Marco Di Renzo

This paper explores downlink Cooperative Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (C-RSMA) in a multi-cell wireless network with the assistance of Joint-Transmission Coordinated Multipoint (JT-CoMP). In this network, each cell consists of a base…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Mohamed Elhattab , Shreya Khisa , Chadi Assi , Ali Ghrayeb , Marwa Qaraqe , Georges Kaddoum

As a special case of sparse code multiple access (SCMA), low-density signatures based code-division multiple access (LDS-CDMA) was widely believed to have worse error rate performance compared to SCMA. With the aid of Eisenstein numbers, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Zilong Liu , Pei Xiao , Zeina Mheich

Massive MIMO is a promising technology to enable a massive number of Internet of Things nodes to transmit short and sporadic data bursts at low power. In conventional cellular networks, devices use a grant-based random access scheme to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Gilles Callebaut , Liesbet Van der Perre , François Rottenberg

For the Internet of Things (IoT), there might be a large number of devices to be connected to the Internet through wireless technologies. In general, IoT devices would have various constraints due to limited processing capability, memory,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Jinho Choi

Grant-free random access (GFRA) is now a popular protocol for large-scale wireless multiple access systems in order to reduce control signaling. Resource allocation in GFRA can be viewed as a form of frame slotted ALOHA, where a ubiquitous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Alix Jeannerot , Malcolm Egan , Jean-Marie Gorce

The recently proposed affine frequency division multiplexing (AFDM) is a new transmission waveform that has shown excellent performance in high-mobility environments, making it a sensible option for the next-generation wireless networks. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Mi Qian , Fei Ji , Yao Ge , Miaowen Wen , Yong Liang Guan

Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) has emerged as a flexible and powerful framework for wireless networks. In this paper, we investigate the user fairness of downlink multi-antenna RSMA in short-packet communications with/without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-15 Yunnuo Xu , Yijie Mao , Onur Dizdar , Bruno Clerckx

In massive machine-type communications (mMTC), grant-free access is a key enabler for a massive number of users to be connected to a base station with low signaling overhead and low latency. In this paper, a two-stage genetic algorithm (GA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Nam Yul Yu

In this paper multi-user detection techniques, such as Parallel and Serial Interference Cancellations (PIC & SIC), General Minimum Mean Square Error (GMMSE) and polynomial MMSE, for the downlink of a broadband Multi-Carrier Code Division…

This paper investigates the bit error rate (BER) and outage probability performance of integrated sensing and communication (ISaC) in uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) based Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Specifically, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-02 Haofeng Liu , Emad Alsusa , Arafat Al-Dweik

This paper presents a novel framework for traffic prediction of IoT devices activated by binary Markovian events. First, we consider a massive set of IoT devices whose activation events are modeled by an On-Off Markov process with known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Mohammad Shehab , Alexander K. Hagelskjær , Anders E. Kalør , Petar Popovski , Hirley Alves

Ambient radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting is widely promoted as an enabler for wireless-power Internet of Things (IoT) networks. This paper jointly characterizes energy harvesting and packet transmissions in grant-free opportunistic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Mohammad Gharbieh , Hesham ElSawy , Mustafa Emara , Hong-Chuan Yang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Integrated learning and communication (ILAC) unifies learned transceivers with radio resource management, where semantic feature multiple access (SFMA) enables paired users to superpose their learned representations over shared…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Jiaxiang Wang , Zhouxiang Zhao , Yahao Ding , Zhijin Qin , Zhaohui Yang , Mingzhe Chen , Mohammad Shikh-Bahaei

The rapid development of IoT technology has led to a shortage of spectrum resources and energy, giving rise to simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) technology. However, traditional multiple input multiple output…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Yixuan Guo , Mingliang Xiong , Wen Fang , Qingwei Jiang , Qingwen Liu , Gang Yan

Grant-free cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (GF-CF-MaMIMO) systems are anticipated to be a key enabling technology for next-generation Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks, as they support massive connectivity without explicit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Christian Forsch , Laura Cottatellucci