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Grant-free transmission is considered as a promising technology to support sporadic data transmission in massive machine-type communications (mMTC). Due to the distributed manner, high collision probability is an inherent drawback of…

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Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is one of the main three focus areas in the 5th generation (5G) of mobile standards to enable connectivity of a massive number of internet of things (IoT) devices with little or no human…

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The spatial diversity and multiplexing advantages of massive multi-input-multi-output (mMIMO) can significantly improve the capacity of massive non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in machine type communications. However, state-of-the-art…

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Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is a crucial scenario to support booming Internet of Things (IoTs) applications. In mMTC, although a large number of devices are registered to an access point (AP), very few of them are active with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jiaqi Liu , Gang Wu , Xiaoxu Zhang , Shu Fang , Shaoqian Li

Grant-free access schemes are candidates to support future massive multiple access applications owing to their capability to reduce control signaling and latency. As a promising class of grant-free schemes, coded random access schemes can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Lorenzo Valentini , Marco Chiani , Enrico Paolini

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

In the 6G Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, unprecedented challenges will be raised to provide massive connectivity, ultra-low latency, and energy efficiency for ultra-dense IoT devices. To address these challenges, we explore the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Haibo Wang , Hongwei Gao , Pai Jiang , Matthieu De Mari , Panzer Gu , Yinsheng Liu

Recently, grant-free random access schemes have received significant attention in the scientific community as a solution for extremely low-latency massive communications in new industrial Internet-of-things (IIoT) and digital twins…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-26 Davide Dardari , Marina Lotti , Nicolò Decarli , Gianni Pasolini

Enabled by hybrid grant-based (GB) and grant-free (GF) transmission techniques, GF users of internet of things (IoT) devices and massive machine-type communications (mMTC) meet opportunities to share wireless resources with GB users. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Hongwu Liu , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Bruno Clerckx , Kyeong Jin Kim , Kyung Sup Kwak , H. Vincent Poor

This paper proposes a grant-free massive access scheme based on the millimeter wave (mmWave) extra-large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) to support massive Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices with low latency, high data rate,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Li Qiao , Anwen Liao , Zhuoran Li , Hua Wang , Zhen Gao , Xiang Gao , Yu Su , Pei Xiao , Li You , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Massive MIMO is considered a key enabler to support massive machine-type communication (mMTC). While massive access schemes have been extensively analyzed for co-located massive MIMO arrays, this paper explores activity detection in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-14 Ali Elkeshawy , Haifa Fares , Amor Nafkha

Grant-free random access (RA) with massive MIMO is a promising RA technique for massive access with low signaling overhead. In the grant-free RA with massive MIMO, preamble length has a critical impact on the performance of the system. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-02 Jie Ding , Daiming Qu , Hao Jiang

Future cellular networks will support a massive number of devices as a result of emerging technologies such as Internet-of-Things and sensor networks. Enhanced by machine type communication (MTC), low-power low-complex devices in the order…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Kamil Senel , Erik G. Larsson

Future wireless networks need to support massive machine type communication (mMTC) where a massive number of devices accesses the network and massive MIMO is a promising enabling technology. Massive access schemes have been studied for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Unnikrishnan Kunnath Ganesan , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

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

With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), massive devices are deployed, which poses severe challenges on access networks due to limited communication resources. When massive users contend for access, the information freshness…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Dongliang Zhang , Jie Gong , Xiang Chen

The advent of the sixth-generation (6G) of wireless communications has given rise to the necessity to connect vast quantities of heterogeneous wireless devices, which requires advanced system capabilities far beyond existing network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Zhen Gao , Malong Ke , Yikun Mei , Li Qiao , Sheng Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , H. Vincent Poor

We consider Internet of Things (IoT) organized on the principles of cell-free massive MIMO. Since the number of things is very large, orthogonal pilots cannot be assigned to all of them even if the things are stationary. This results in an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-19 Shilpa Rao , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang

Grant-free random access (GF-RA) is a promising access technique for massive machine-type communications (mMTC) in future wireless networks, particularly in the context of 5G and beyond (6G) systems. Within the context of GF-RA, this study…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Ali Elkeshawy , Haifa Fares , Amor Nafkha

Massive MIMO systems, where base stations are equipped with hundreds of antennas, are an attractive way to handle the rapid growth of data traffic. As the number of user equipments (UEs) increases, the initial access and handover in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-20 Luca Sanguinetti , Antonio A. D'Amico , Michele Morelli , Merouane Debbah