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Massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC) is a key service category in the current generation of wireless networks featuring an extremely high density of energy and resource-limited devices with sparse and sporadic activity patterns. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jyotish Robin , Elza Erkip

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) are fundamental to the Internet of Things (IoT) framework in future wireless networks, involving the connection of a vast number of devices with sporadic transmission patterns. Traditional device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Xinjue Wang , Esa Ollila , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

A great amount of endeavor has recently been devoted to activity detection for massive machine-type communications in cell-free multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. However, as the number of antennas at the access points (APs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-27 Jingreng Lei , Yang Li , Ziyue Wang , Qingfeng Lin , Ya-Feng Liu , Yik-Chung Wu

Support massive connectivity is an important requirement in 5G wireless communication system. For massive Machine Type Communication (MTC) scenario, since the network is expected to accommodate a massive number of MTC devices with sparse…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Yanlun Wu , Jun Fang

This paper considers networked device-free sensing in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) cellular system with multipath environment, where the passive targets reflect the downlink signals to the base stations (BSs) via…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Qin Shi , Liang Liu

A great amount of endeavor has recently been devoted to activity detection for massive machine-type communications in cell-free massive MIMO. However, in practice, as the number of antennas at the access points (APs) increases, the Rayleigh…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Jingreng Lei , Yang Li , Zeyi Ren , Qingfeng Lin , Ziyue Wang , Ya-Feng Liu , Yik-Chung Wu

Compressive Sensing has well boosted massive random access protocols over the last decade. In this paper we apply an orthogonal FFT basis as it is used in OFDM, but subdivide its image into so-called sub-channels and let each sub-channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Gerhard Wunder , Axel Flinth , Benedikt Groß

Massive MIMO communication systems, by virtue of utilizing very large number of antennas, have a potential to yield higher spectral and energy efficiency in comparison with the conventional MIMO systems. In this paper, we consider uplink…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-30 Alam Zaib , Mudassir Masood , Anum Ali , Weiyu Xu , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri

Grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is promising to achieve low latency massive access in Internet of Things (IoT) applications. In grant-free NOMA, pilot signals are often used for user activity detection (UAD) and channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Yuanyuan Zhang , Zhengdao Yuan , Qinghua Guo , Zhongyong Wang , Jiangtao Xi , Yonghui Li

In Spectrally Efficient Frequency Division Multiplexing systems the input data stream is divided into several adjacent subchannels where the distance of the subchannels is less than that of Orthogonal Frequency Division…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-16 Seyed Javad Heydari , Mahmoud Ferdosizade Naeiny , Farokh Marvasti

This paper considers a challenging scenario of machine type communications, where we assume internet of things (IoT) devices send short packets sporadically to an access point (AP) and the devices are not synchronized in the packet level.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yuanyuan Zhang , Zhengdao Yuan , Qinghua Guo , Zhongyong Wang , Jiangtao Xi , Yanguang Yu , Yonghui Li

This two-part paper aims to quantify the cost of device activity detection in an uplink massive connectivity scenario with a large number of devices but device activities are sporadic. Part I of this paper shows that in an asymptotic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Liang Liu , Wei Yu

In this paper, we consider the problem of activity detection in grant-free code-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). We focus on performing activity detection via subspace methods under a setup where the data and pilot spreading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Bashar Tahir , Stefan Schwarz , Markus Rupp

Grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access has been regarded as a viable approach to accommodate access for a massive number of machine-type devices with small data packets. The sporadic activation of the devices creates a multiuser setup…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-15 Yanna Bai , Wei Chen , Bo Ai , Petar Popovski

This paper examines the problem of rate allocation for multicasting over slow Rayleigh fading channels using network coding. In the proposed model, the network is treated as a collection of Rayleigh fading multiple access channels. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-27 Avi Zanko , Amir Leshem , Ephraim Zehavi

We address a decentralized wireless communication network with a fixed number $u$ of frequency sub-bands to be shared among $N$ transmitter-receiver pairs. It is assumed that the number of users $N$ is a random variable with a given…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-12-01 Kamyar Moshksar , Alireza Bayesteh , Amir K. Khandani

The use of low-resolution data converters in the radio-frequency (RF) chains of all-digital massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) basestations promises significant reductions in power consumption, hardware costs, and interconnect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-07 Seyed Hadi Mirfarshbafan , Mahdi Shabany , Seyed Alireza Nezamalhosseini , Christoph Studer

The main challenge of massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is the joint activity and signal detection of devices. The mMTC scenario with many devices transmitting data intermittently at low data rates and via very short packets…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-28 R. B. Di Renna , R. C. de Lamare

In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning based approach for joint channel estimation and signal detection in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems by exploring the time and frequency correlation of wireless fading…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Xuemei Yi , Caijun Zhong

The wireless channel changes continuously with time and frequency and the block-fading assumption, which is popular in many theoretical analyses, never holds true in practical scenarios. This discrepancy is critical for user activity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jianan Bai , Erik G. Larsson