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The Internet of Things (IoT) is large-scale by nature. This is not only manifested by the large number of connected devices, but also by the high volumes of traffic that must be accommodated. Cellular networks are indeed a natural candidate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Mohammad Gharbieh , Hesham ElSawy , Ahmed Bader , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

To achieve high data rates defined in 5G, the use of millimeter-waves and massive-MIMO are indispensable. To benefit from these technologies, an accurate estimation of the channel parameters is crucial. We propose a novel two-stage…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-15 Fazal-E-Asim , Felix Antreich , Charles C. Cavalcante , André L. F. de Almeida , Josef A. Nossek

Grant-free random access is a promising protocol to support massive access in beyond fifth-generation (B5G) cellular Internet-of-Things (IoT) with sporadic traffic. Specifically, in each coherence interval, the base station (BS) performs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Xiaodan Shao , Xiaoming Chen , Rundong Jia

With recent advances on the dense low-earth orbit (LEO) constellation, LEO satellite network has become one promising solution to providing global coverage for Internet-of-Things (IoT) services. Confronted with the sporadic transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Zhaoji Zhang , Ying Li , Chongwen Huang , Qinghua Guo , Lei Liu , Chau Yuen , Yong Liang Guan

This paper addresses the problem of activity detection in distributed Internet of Things (IoT) networks, where devices employ asynchronous transmissions with heterogeneous power levels to report their local observations. The system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Amirhossein Taherpour , Somayeh Khani , Abbas Taherpour , Tamer Khattab

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

Current IoT networks are characterized by an ultra-high density of devices with different energy budget constraints, typically having sparse and sporadic activity patterns. Access points require an efficient strategy to identify the active…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-31 Jyotish Robin , Elza Erkip

In this paper, a dense Internet of Things (IoT) monitoring system is studied in which a large number of devices contend for transmitting timely status packets to their corresponding receivers over wireless noisy channels, using a carrier…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Bo Zhou , Walid Saad

In this paper, we propose a wirelessly powered Internet of Things (IoT) system based on the cell-free massive MIMO technology. In such a system, during the downlink phase, the sensors harvest radio-frequency (RF) energy emitted by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-07 Xinhua Wang , Alexei Ashikhmin , Xiaodong Wang

An IoT (Internet of things) system supports a massive number of IoT devices wirelessly. We show how to use Cell-Free Massive MIMO (multiple-input and multiple-output) to provide a scalable and energy efficient IoT system. We employ optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Hangsong Yan , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

Massive device connectivity in Internet of Thing (IoT) networks with sporadic traffic poses significant communication challenges. To overcome this challenge, the serving base station is required to detect the active devices and estimate the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Yuning Jiang , Junyan Su , Yuanming Shi , Boris Houska

This paper investigates joint channel estimation and device activity detection in the LEO satellite-enabled grant-free random access systems with large differential delay and Doppler shift. In addition, the multiple-input multiple-output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Boxiao Shen , Yongpeng Wu , Wenjun Zhang , Geoffrey Ye Li , Jianping An , Chengwen Xing

There is a growing interest in the transition from 4-step random access to 2-step random access in machine-type communication (MTC), since 2-step random access is well-suited to short message delivery in various Internet of Things (IoT)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Jinho Choi

The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has grown exponentially in recent years, introducing significant security challenges. Accurate identification of the types of IoT devices and their associated actions through network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Reza Ryan , Napoleon Paciente , Cahil Youngs , Nickson Karie , Qian Li , Nasim Ferdosian

Most existing studies on joint activity detection and channel estimation for grant-free massive random access (RA) systems assume perfect synchronization among all active users, which is hard to achieve in practice. Therefore, this paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Xinyu Bian , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

We consider channel estimation (CE) in narrowband Internet-of-Things (NB-IoT) systems. Due to the fluctuations in phase within receiver and transmitter oscillators, and also the residual frequency offset (FO) caused by discontinuous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Fredrik Rusek , Sha Hu

The rapid proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices introduces significant security challenges due to limited visibility and weak device-level guarantees. Accurate and timely identification of devices is essential for enforcing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Alex Ciechonski , Fabio Palmese , Alessandro E. C. Redondi , Anna Maria Mandalari

Reconfigurable intelligent surface is a potential technology component of future wireless networks due to its capability of shaping the wireless environment. The promising MIMO systems in terms of extended coverage and enhanced capacity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Paulo R. B. Gomes , Gilderlan T. de Araújo , Bruno Sokal , André L. F. de Almeida , Behrooz Makki , Gábor Fodor

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

This paper studies massive access in cell-free massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) based Internet of Things and solves the challenging active user detection (AUD) and channel estimation (CE) problems. For the uplink transmission, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Malong Ke , Zhen Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Xiqi Gao , Kat-Kit Wong