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We propose a novel random multiple access (RMA) scheme with quality of service (QoS) guarantees for machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. We consider a slotted uncoordinated data transmission period during which machine type…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Rana Abbas , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

The thesis is dedicated to studying methods to improve the efficiency of random access schemes and to facilitate their deployment in machine-type communications (MTC). First, a joint user activity identification and channel estimation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Zhuo Sun

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-17 Yueqing Wang , Yikun Mei , Zhen Gao , Ziwei Wan , Boyu Ning , De Mi , Sami Muhaidat

Uplink (UL) dominated sporadic transmission and stringent latency requirement of massive machine type communication (mMTC) forces researchers to abandon complicated grant-acknowledgment based legacy networks. UL grant-free non-orthogonal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Shah Mahdi Hasan , Kaushik Mahata , Md Mashud Hyder

As an enhanced version of massive machine-type communication in 5G, massive communication has emerged as one of the six usage scenarios anticipated for 6G, owing to its potential in industrial internet-of-things and smart metering. Driven…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yutao Chen , Wei Chen

User-centric (UC) based cell-free (CF) structures can provide the benefits of coverage enhancement for millimeter wave (mmWave) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems, which is regarded as the key technology of the reliable and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Yingrong Zhong , Yashuai Cao , Tiejun Lv

Unsourced random-access (U-RA) is a type of grant-free random access with a virtually unlimited number of users, of which only a certain number $K_a$ are active on the same time slot. Users employ exactly the same codebook, and the task of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Alexander Fengler , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

Massive communication is one of key scenarios of 6G where two magnitude higher connection density would be required to serve diverse services. As a promising direction, unsourced multiple access has been proved to outperform significantly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yifei Yuan , Yuhong Huang , Chunlin Yan , Sen Wang , Shuai Ma , Xiaodong Shen

Massive machine-type communication (MTC) is expected to play a key role in supporting Internet of Things (IoT) applications such as smart cities, smart factory, and connected vehicles through cellular networks. MTC is characterized by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Jinho Choi , Jie Ding , Ngoc Phuc Le , Zhiguo Ding

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) in 6G requires supporting a massive number of devices with limited resources, posing challenges in efficient random access. Grant-free random access and uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Thushan Sivalingam , Samad Ali , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva Aho

Unsourced random access (URA) has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling massive connectivity in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. However, since URA transmissions do not contain device identifiers, the receiver may not associate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Wenbo Fan , Zeping Sui , Yuhei Takahashi , Jun Cheng , Zilong Liu , Pingzhi Fan

In this work, we present the design for both pilot-uncoupled and pilot-free on-off multiple access (ODMA) receivers in unsourced random access (URA) for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Unlike pilot-coupled ODMA, where on-off…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Zaichen Zhang

This article considers the massive MIMO unsourced random access problem on a quasi-static Rayleigh fading channel. Given a fixed message length and a prescribed number of channel uses, the objective is to construct a coding scheme that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Michail Gkagkos , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Costas N. Georghiades

The massive machine-type communication has been one of the most representative services for future wireless networks. It aims to support massive connectivity of user equipments (UEs) which sporadically transmit packets with small size. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Junyuan Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Wenjun Zhang

We investigate the performance of a multiple reconfigurable intelligence surface (RIS)-aided millimeter wave (mmWave) beamspace multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system with multiple users (UEs). We focus on a challenging scenario in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Zaid Abdullah , Mario R. Camana , Abuzar B. M. Adam , Chandan K. Sheemar , Eva Lagunas , Symeon Chatzinotas

Unsourced random-access (U-RA) is a type of grant-free random access with a virtually unlimited number of users, of which only a certain number $K_a$ are active on the same time slot. Users employ exactly the same codebook, and the task of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Alexander Fengler , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

This paper describes a radio architecture for distributed spectrum sharing of multiple channels among secondary users (SUs) in a wide band of frequencies and a localized area. A novel Multichannel Immediate Multiple Access (MIMA) physical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-10 Mingming Cai , J. Nicholas Laneman

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

Massive MIMO and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) are crucial methods for future wireless systems as they provide many advantages over conventional systems. Power-domain NOMA methods are investigated in massive MIMO systems, whereas…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Murat Bayraktar , Gokhan Muzaffer Guvensen

We consider the unsourced random access problem with multiple receivers and propose a cell-free type solution for that. In our proposed scheme, the active users transmit their signals to the access points (APs) distributed in a geographical…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Mert Ozates , Mohammad Kazemi , Eduard Jorswieck , Deniz Gunduz