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We consider a multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) wideband Rayleigh block fading channel where the channel state is unknown to both the transmitter and the receiver and there is only an average power constraint on the input. We compute…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Siddharth Ray , Muriel Medard , Lizhong Zheng

We consider unsourced random access with MIMO receiver - a crucial communication scenario for future 5G/6G wireless networks. We perform a projection-based decoder analysis and derive energy efficiency achievability bounds when channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Kirill Andreev , Daria Ustinova , Alexey Frolov

In this paper, we study the problem of user activity detection and large-scale fading coefficient estimation in a random access wireless uplink with a massive MIMO base station with a large number $M$ of antennas and a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Alexander Fengler , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

We investigate fully asynchronous unsourced random access (URA), and propose a high-performing scheme that employs on-off division multiple access (ODMA). In this scheme, active users distribute their data over the transmit block based on a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Mert Ozates , Mohammad Kazemi , Gianluigi Liva , Deniz Gündüz

In this work, we discuss the problem of unsourced random access (URA) over a Gaussian multiple access channel (GMAC). To address the challenges posed by emerging massive machine-type connectivity, URA reframes multiple access as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Zhentian Zhang , Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Jian Dang , Kai-Kit Wong , Zaichen Zhang , Christos Masouros

This paper addresses the unsourced/uncoordinated random access problem in an integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system, with a focus on uplink multiple access code design. Recent theoretical advancements highlight that an ISAC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Kai-Kit Wong , Zaichen Zhang , Christos Masouros

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

To support machine-type communication (MTC), massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) has been considered for grant-free random access. In general, the performance of grant-free random access with massive MIMO is limited by the number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-03 Jinho Choi

There is an increasing demand of massive machine-type communication (mMTC) to provide scalable access for a large number of devices, which has prompted extensive investigation on grant-free massive random access (RA) in 5G and beyond…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-13 Xinyu Bian , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

Unsourced random access (URA) is a recently proposed communication paradigm attuned to machine-driven data transfers. In the original URA formulation, all the active devices share the same number of bits per packet. The scenario where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Allen Hao , Stefano Rini , Jean-Francois Chamberland

This paper proposes a unified semi-blind detection framework for sourced and unsourced random access (RA), which enables next-generation ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) with massive devices. Specifically, the active…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Malong Ke , Zhen Gao , Mingyu Zhou , Dezhi Zheng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , H. Vincent Poor

Consider a random access communication scenario over a channel whose operation is defined for any number of possible transmitters. As in the model recently introduced by Polyanskiy for the Multiple Access Channel (MAC) with a fixed, known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Recep Can Yavas , Victoria Kostina , Michelle Effros

We present a novel access protocol for crowd scenarios in massive MIMO (Multiple-input multiple-output) systems. Crowd scenarios are characterized by a large number of users with intermittent access behavior, whereby orthogonal scheduling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Jesper H. Sørensen , Elisabeth de Carvalho , Čedomir Stefanović , Petar Popovski

We study a lossy source coding problem for a memoryless remote source. The source data is broadcast over an arbitrarily varying channel (AVC) controlled by an adversary. One output of the AVC is received as input at the encoder, and another…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Amitalok J. Budkuley , Bikash Kumar Dey , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

We investigate the problem of message transmission and the problem of common randomness (CR) generation over single-user multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) slow fading channels with average input power constraint, additive white Gaussian…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Rami Ezzine , Moritz Wiese , Christian Deppe , Holger Boche

We consider the problem of controlling an unstable plant over an additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel with a transmit power constraint, where the signaling rate of communication is larger than the sampling rate (for generating…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Anatoly Khina , Gustav M. Pettersson , Victoria Kostina , Babak Hassibi

This paper investigates the unsourced random access (URA) scheme to accommodate numerous machine-type users communicating to a base station equipped with multiple antennas. Existing works adopt a slotted transmission strategy to reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Xinyu Xie , Yongpeng Wu , Jianping An , Junyuan Gao , Wenjun Zhang , Chengwen Xing , Kai-Kit Wong , Chengshan Xiao

This paper investigates the multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) massive unsourced random access in an asynchronous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system, with both timing and frequency offsets (TFO) and non-negligible…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Tianya Li , Yongpeng Wu , Wenjun Zhang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Chengshan Xiao

The newly introduced ultra-reliable low latency communication service class in 5G New Radio depends on innovative low latency radio resource management solutions that can guarantee high reliability. Grant-free random access, where channel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Nurul Huda Mahmood , Renato Abreu , Ronald Böhnke , Martin Schubert , Gilberto Berardinelli , Thomas H. Jacobsen

In this paper, we design a novel two-phase unsourced random access (URA) scheme in massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO). In the first phase, we collect a sequence of information bits to jointly acquire the user channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Jia-Cheng Jiang , Hui-Ming Wang