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Recent trends suggest that cognitive radio based wireless networks will be frequency agile and the nodes will be equipped with multiple radios capable of tuning across large swaths of spectrum. The MAC scheduling problem in such networks…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Avhishek Chatterjee , Supratim Deb , Kanthi Nagaraj , Vikram Srinivasan

A new lower bound for the average probability or error for a two-user discrete memoryless (DM) multiple-access channel (MAC) is derived. This bound has a structure very similar to the well-known sphere packing packing bound derived by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-10-08 Ali Nazari , S. Sandeep Pradhan , Achilleas Anastasopoulos

We address the problem of uncoordinated massive random-access in the Gaussian multiple access channel (MAC). The performance of low-complexity T-fold irregular repetition slotted ALOHA (IRSA) scheme is investigated and achievability bounds…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Anton Glebov , Nikolay Matveev , Kirill Andreev , Alexey Frolov , Andrey Turlikov

Future autonomous systems require wireless connectivity able to support extremely stringent requirements on both latency and reliability. In this paper, we leverage recent developments in the field of finite-blocklength information theory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Johan Östman , Giuseppe Durisi , Erik G. Ström , Jingya Li , Henrik Sahlin , Gianluigi Liva

This work considers an asynchronous $\textsf{K}_\text{a}$-active-user unsourced multiple access channel (AUMAC) with the worst-case asynchronicity. The transmitted messages must be decoded within $n$ channel uses, while some codewords are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Jyun-Sian Wu , Pin-Hsun Lin , Marcel A. Mross , Eduard A. Jorswieck

We develop a new metric for quantifying end-to-end throughput in multihop wireless networks, which we term random access transport capacity, since the interference model presumes uncoordinated transmissions. The metric quantifies the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Jeffrey G. Andrews , Steven Weber , Marios Kountouris , Martin Haenggi

The use of multiple antenna arrays in transmission and reception has become an integral part of modern wireless communications. To quantify the performance of such systems, the evaluation of bounds on the error probability of realistic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Apostolos Karadimitrakis , Aris L. Moustakas , Romain Couillet

Despite considerable progress on the information-theoretic broadcast channel, the capacity region of fading broadcast channels with channel state known at the receivers but unknown at the transmitter remains unresolved. We address this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-04-22 David Tse , Roy Yates

We consider communication over the Gaussian multiple-access channel in the regime where the number of users grows linearly with the codelength. In this regime, schemes based on sparse superposition coding can achieve a near-optimal tradeoff…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Xiaoqi Liu , Kuan Hsieh , Ramji Venkataramanan

This paper characterizes the capacity region of Gaussian MIMO broadcast channels (BCs) with per-antenna power constraint (PAPC). While the capacity region of MIMO BCs with a sum power constraint (SPC) was extensively studied, that under…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-18 Thuy M. Pham , Ronan Farrell , Le-Nam Tran

We investigate the fundamental limits of the unsourced random access over the binary-input Gaussian channel. By fundamental limits, we mean the minimal energy per bit required to achieve the target per-user probability of error. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Anton Glebov , Pavel Rybin , Kirill Andreev , Alexey Frolov

The problem of three-user multiple-access channel (MAC) with noiseless feedback is investigated. A new coding strategy is presented. The coding scheme builds upon the natural extension of the Cover-Leung (CL) scheme; and uses quasi-linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Mohsen Heidari , Farhad Shirani , S. Sandeep Pradhan

This paper considers the achievability and converse bounds on the maximal channel coding rate at a given blocklength and error probability over AWGN channels. The problem stems from covert communication with Gaussian codewords. By…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Xinchun Yu , Shuangqin Wei , Yuan Luo

To account for the massive uncoordinated random access scenario, which is relevant for the Internet of Things, Polyanskiy (2017) proposed a novel formulation of the multiple-access problem, commonly referred to as unsourced multiple access,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Alejandro Lancho , Giuseppe Durisi , Alexandre Graell i Amat

This work proposes a joint power control and access points (APs) scheduling algorithm for uplink cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF-mMIMO) networks without channel hardening assumption. Extensive studies have done on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Hyeonsik Yeom , Junguk Park , Jinho Choi , Jeongseok Ha

In this paper, we study the performance of an amplify-and-forward (AF) based analog network coding (ANC) relay scheme in a multi-hop wireless network under individual power constraints. In the first part, a unicast scenario is considered.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-23 Binyue Liu , Ning Cai

In this paper, we study the multiple-antenna wireless communication networks, where a large number of devices simultaneously communicate with an access point. The capacity region of multiple-input multiple-output massive multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Fan Wei , Yongpeng Wu , Wen Chen , Wei Yang , Giuseppe Caire

This work identifies the fundamental limits of Multi-Access Coded Caching (MACC) where each user is connected to multiple caches in a manner that follows a generalized combinatorial topology. This topology stands out as it allows for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Federico Brunero , Petros Elia

Sparse superposition codes, also called sparse regression codes (SPARCs), are a class of codes for efficient communication over the AWGN channel at rates approaching the channel capacity. In a standard SPARC, codewords are sparse linear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Cynthia Rush , Kuan Hsieh , Ramji Venkataramanan

We address the problem of coding for classical multiple-access channels (MACs) with the assistance of non-signaling correlations between parties. It is well-known that non-signaling assistance does not change the capacity of classical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Omar Fawzi , Paul Fermé