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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

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

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Luca Sanguinetti , Antonio A. D'Amico , Michele Morelli , Merouane Debbah

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

The number of wireless devices which are connected to a single Wireless Local Area Network continues to grow each year. As a result, the orchestration of so many devices becomes a daunting, resource--consuming task, especially when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-19 George Vershinin , Asaf Cohen , Omer Gurewitz

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a key technology to enable massive machine type communications (mMTC) in 5G networks and beyond. In this paper, NOMA is applied to improve the random access efficiency in high-density…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Sami Khairy , Prasanna Balaprakash , Lin X. Cai , H. Vincent Poor

This paper introduces a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted grant-free non-orthogonal multiple-access (GF-NOMA) scheme. To ensure the power reception disparity required by the power domain NOMA (PD-NOMA), we propose a joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Recep Akif Tasci , Fatih Kilinc , Abdulkadir Celik , Asmaa Abdallah , Ahmed M. Eltawil , Ertugrul Basar

The IoT's explosive growth has led to a massive number of connected devices, which demand high-speed and pervasive connectivity, posing significant challenges for current-generation wireless communication infrastructures. Considering our…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Praveen Hegde , Robin Joseph Varughese

Semi-grant-free (Semi-GF) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) enables grant-free (GF) and grant-based (GB) users to share the same resource blocks, thereby balancing the connectivity and stability of communications. This letter analyzes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Chao Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Wenqiang Yi , Zhijin Qin , Zhiguo Ding

The Internet of things (IoT) holds much commercial potential and could facilitate distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication in future systems. We study a distributed reception scenario in which a transmitter equipped…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Junil Choi , David J. Love , D. Richard Brown , Mireille Boutin

Low-Power Wide-Area Networks operating in the unlicensed bands are being deployed to connect a rapidly growing number of Internet-of-Things devices. While the unlicensed sub-GHz band offers favorable propagation for long-range connections,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Gilles Callebaut , Sara Gunnarsson , Andrea P. Guevara , Fredrik Tufvesson , Sofie Pollin , Liesbet Van der Perre , Anders J Johansson

With the arrival of 6G, the Internet of Things (IoT) traffic is becoming more and more complex and diverse. To meet the diverse service requirements of IoT devices, massive machine-type communications (mMTC) becomes a typical scenario, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Zhongwen Sun , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Bo Ai

In this paper, we study the coexistence of critical and non-critical Internet of Things (IoT) services on a grant-free channel consisting of radio access and backhaul segments. On the radio access segment, IoT devices send packets to access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Rahif Kassab , Osvaldo Simeone , Andrea Munari , Federico Clazzer

In this letter, we propose a deep learning-aided multi-user detection (DeepMuD) in uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to empower the massive machine-type communication where an offline-trained Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Ahmet Emir , Ferdi Kara , Hakan Kaya , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Device activity detection is one main challenge in grant-free random access, which is recently proposed to support massive access for massive machine-type communications (mMTC). Existing solutions fail to consider interference generated by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Dongdong Jiang , Ying Cui

Massive machine type communication (mMTC) has been identified as an important use case in Beyond 5G networks and future massive Internet of Things (IoT). However, for the massive multiple access in mMTC, there is a serious access preamble…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Gaofeng Cheng , Huan Chen , Pingzhi Fan , Li Li , Li Hao

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology facilitates huge increases in the capacity of wireless channels, while non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) addresses the problem of limited resources in traditional orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Lucinda Hadley , Ioannis Chatzigeorgiou

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

Grant Free Random Access (GFRA) is a popular protocol in the Internet of Things (IoT) to reduce the control signaling. GFRA is a framed protocol where each frame is split into two parts: device identification; and data transmission part…

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

We consider an extension of the massive unsourced random access originally proposed by Polyanskiy to the case where the receiver has a very large number of antennas (a massive MIMO base station) and no channel state information is given to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Alexander Fengler , Giuseppe Caire , Peter Jung , Saeid Haghighatshoar

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