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We investigate the activity detection and channel estimation issues for cell-free Internet of Things (IoT) networks with massive random access. In each time slot, only partial devices are active and communicate with neighboring access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Xinhua Wang , Alexei Ashikhmin , Zhicheng Dong , Chao Zhai

The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has transformed industries by enabling seamless data exchange among connected devices. However, IoT networks remain vulnerable to security threats such as denial of service (DoS) attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Behnam Seyedi , Octavian Postolache

The number of wireless devices is drastically increasing, resulting in many devices contending for radio resources. In this work, we present an algorithm to detect active devices for unsourced random access, i.e., the devices are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Gilles Callebaut , François Rottenberg , Liesbet Van der Perre , Erik G. Larsson

This paper proposes a computationally efficient algorithm to solve the joint data and activity detection problem for massive random access with massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). The BS acquires the active devices and their data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Ziyue Wang , Zhilin Chen , Ya-Feng Liu , Foad Sohrabi , Wei Yu

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 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

The fundamental communication problem in the wireless Internet of Things (IoT) is to discover a massive number of devices and to allow them reliable access to shared channels. Oftentimes these devices transmit short messages randomly and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Xu Chen , Lina Liu , Dongning Guo , Gregory W. Wornell

This paper investigates the issue of cooperative activity detection for grant-free random access in the sixth-generation (6G) cell-free wireless networks with sourced and unsourced paradigms. First, we propose a cooperative framework for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Xiaodan Shao , Xiaoming Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

Internet of Things (IoT) has triggered a rapid increase in the number of connected devices and new use cases of wireless communications. To meet the new demands, the fifth generation (5G) of wireless communication systems features native…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-28 Leatile Marata , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , Eduardo Noboro Tominaga , Hirley Alves

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

Device activity detection in the emerging cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems has been recognized as a crucial task in machine-type communications, in which multiple access points (APs) jointly identify the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yang Li , Qingfeng Lin , Ya-Feng Liu , Bo Ai , Yik-Chung Wu

Most existing works on random access for machine-type communication (MTC) assume independent device activities. However, in several Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, device activities are driven by events and hence may be correlated.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Wang Liu , Ying Cui , Lianghui Ding , Jun Sun , Yangyang Liu , Yang Li , Li Zhang

The Internet of Things (IoT) will encompass a massive number of machine type devices that must wirelessly transmit, in near real-time, a diverse set of messages sensed from their environment. Designing resource allocation schemes to support…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Taehyeun Park , Walid Saad

Cellular-based networks are expected to offer connectivity for massive Internet of Things (mIoT) systems. However, their Random Access CHannel (RACH) procedure suffers from unreliability, due to the collision from the simultaneous massive…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Nan Jiang , Yansha Deng , Arumugam Nallanathan , Jinghong Yuan

Efficient and low-latency wireless connectivity between the base station (BS) and a sparse set of sporadically active devices from a massive number of devices is crucial for random access in emerging massive machine-type communications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jyotish Robin , Elza Erkip

Modern wireless networks must reliably support a wide array of connectivity demands, encompassing various user needs across diverse scenarios. Machine-Type Communication (mMTC) is pivotal in these networks, particularly given the challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ali Elkeshawy , HaÏfa Farès , Amor Nafkha

Grant-free access is a key enabler for connecting wireless devices with low latency and low signaling overhead in massive machine-type communications (mMTC). For massive grant-free access, user-specific signatures are uniquely assigned to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Nam Yul Yu , Wei Yu

Most existing studies on massive grant-free access, proposed to support massive machine-type communications (mMTC) for the Internet of things (IoT), assume Rayleigh fading and perfect synchronization for simplicity. However, in practice,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Wang Liu , Ying Cui , Feng Yang , Lianghui Ding , Jun Sun

Recently, non-orthogonal codes have been advocated for IoT massive access. Activity detection has been demonstrated to entail common support recovery in a jointly sparse multiple measurement vector (MMV) problem and MMV algorithms have been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-06 Mohammad Naseri Tehrani , Shahrokh Farahmand

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