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Massive Machine-Type Communication (mMTC) is expected to be strongly supported by future 5G wireless networks. Its deployment, however, is seriously challenged by the high risk of random access (RA) collision. A popular concept is to reduce…
We consider the problem of energy-efficient point-to-point transmission of delay-sensitive data (e.g. multimedia data) over a fading channel. Existing research on this topic utilizes either physical-layer centric solutions, namely…
In modern wireless communication systems, there is a rapidly increasing demand for connectivity to wireless networks. Devices such as internet of things (IoT) devices, connected vehicles, smartphones, surveillance systems, and various other…
Recently, the so-called cell-free Massive MIMO architecture has been introduced, wherein a very large number of distributed access points (APs) simultaneously and jointly serve a much smaller number of mobile stations (MSs). A variant of…
Massive Machine-Type Communications (MTC) over cellular networks is expected to be an integral part of wireless "Smart City" applications. The Long Term Evolution (LTE)/LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) technology is a major candidate for provisioning…
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)…
Future cellular networks are expected to support new communication paradigms such as machine-type communication (MTC) services along with conventional human-type communication (HTC) services. This requires base stations to serve a large…
Data aggregation is a promising approach to enable massive machine-type communication (mMTC). This paper focuses on the aggregation phase where a massive number of machine-type devices (MTDs) transmit to aggregators. By using non-orthogonal…
The 5G cellular wireless systems will have a multi-tier architecture consisting of macrocells, different types of licensed small cells and D2D networks to serve users with different quality-of-service (QoS) requirements in a spectrum…
This report summarizes some considerations on possible evolutions of grant-free random access in the next generation of the 3GPP wireless cellular standard. The analysis is carried out by mapping the problem to the recently-introduced…
Energy-aware system design is an important optimization task for static and mobile Internet of Things (IoT)-based sensor nodes, especially for highly resource-constrained vehicles such as mobile robotic systems. For 4G/5G-based cellular…
Transmit power control (TPC) is a key mechanism for managing interference, energy utilization, and connectivity in wireless systems. In this paper, we propose a simple low-complexity TPC algorithm based on the deep unfolding of the…
In large-scale Internet of things networks, efficient medium access control (MAC) is critical due to the growing number of devices competing for limited communication resources. In this work, we consider a new challenge in which a set of…
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…
This paper reviews the multiple access techniques for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications in future wireless cellular networks. M2M communications aims at providing te communication infrastructure for the emerging Internet of Things…
This paper investigates the problem of distributed medium access control in a time slotted wireless multiple access network with an unknown finite number of homogeneous users. Assume that each user has a single transmission option. In each…
Vehicular crowdsensing is anticipated to become a key catalyst for data-driven optimization in the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) domain. Yet, the expected growth in massive Machine-type Communication (mMTC) caused by…
In future cell-free (or cell-less) wireless networks, a large number of devices in a geographical area will be served simultaneously in non-orthogonal multiple access scenarios by a large number of distributed access points (APs), which…
With wireless devices increasingly forming a unified smart network for seamless, user-friendly operations, random access (RA) medium access control (MAC) design is considered a key solution for handling unpredictable data traffic from…
Artificial intelligence-generated traffic is changing the shape of wireless networks. Specifically, as the amount of data generated to train machine learning models is massive, network resources must be carefully allocated to continue…