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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

A new channel coding approach was proposed in [1] for random multiple access communication over the discrete-time memoryless channel. The coding approach allows users to choose their communication rates independently without sharing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zheng Wang , Jie Luo

Consider a random access communication scenario over a channel whose operation is defined for any number of possible transmitters. As in the model recently introduced by Polyanskiy for the Multiple Access Channel (MAC) with a fixed, known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Recep Can Yavas , Victoria Kostina , Michelle Effros

In downlink massive random access (DMRA), a base station transmits messages to a typically small subset of active users, selected randomly from a massive number of total users. Explicitly encoding the identities of active users would incur…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yuchen Liao , Wenyi Zhang

This paper considers the Gaussian multiple-access channel (MAC) in the asymptotic regime where the number of users grows linearly with the code length. We propose efficient coding schemes based on random linear models with approximate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Kuan Hsieh , Cynthia Rush , Ramji Venkataramanan

Unsourced random access (URA) is a recently proposed communication paradigm attuned to machine-driven data transfers. In the original URA formulation, all the active devices share the same number of bits per packet. The scenario where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Allen Hao , Stefano Rini , Jean-Francois Chamberland

This paper investigates the unsourced random access (URA) problem with a massive multiple-input multiple-output receiver that serves wireless devices in the near-field of radiation. We employ an uncoupled transmission protocol without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Xinyu Xie , Yongpeng Wu , Jianping An , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chengwen Xing , Wenjun Zhang

In 2017, Polyanskiy [1] showed that the trade-off between power and bandwidth efficiency for massive Gaussian random access is governed by two fundamentally different regimes: low power and high power. For both regimes, tight performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Ralf Müller

We study the problem of unsourced random access (URA) over Rayleigh block-fading channels with a receiver equipped with multiple antennas. We propose a slotted structure with multiple stages of orthogonal pilots, each of which is randomly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Mohammad Kazemi , Tolga M. Duman

This paper studies the capacity of massive random-access cellular networks, modeled as a MIMO fading channel with an infinite number of interfering cells. To characterize the symmetric sum rate of the network, a random-coding argument is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Grace Villacrés , Tobias Koch , Gonzalo Vazquez-Vilar

By offering shared computational facilities to which mobile devices can offload their computational tasks, the mobile edge computing framework is expanding the scope of applications that can be provided on resource-constrained devices. When…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Mahsa Salmani , Timothy N. Davidson

This work presents a novel framework for random access in crowded scenarios of multiple-input multiple-output(MIMO) systems. A multi-antenna base station (BS) and multiple single-antenna users are considered in these systems. A huge portion…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Abolghasem Afshar , Vahid Tabataba Vakili , Sajad Daei

Grant-free random access is promising for massive connectivity with sporadic transmissions in massive machine type communications (mMTC), where the hand-shaking between the access point (AP) and users is skipped, leading to high access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhengdao Yuan , Fei Liu , Qinghua Guo , Xiaojun Yuan , Zhongyong Wang , Yonghui Li

Many-user MAC is an important model for understanding energy efficiency of massive random access in 5G and beyond. Introduced in Polyanskiy'2017 for the AWGN channel, subsequent works have provided improved bounds on the asymptotic minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Suhas S Kowshik

We present an unsourced multiple access (UMAC) scheme tailored to high-mobility wireless channels. The proposed construction is based on orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation and sparse interleaver division multiple access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Davide Bergamasco , Federico Clazzer , Paolo Casari

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 addresses the unsourced/uncoordinated random access problem in an integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system, with a focus on uplink multiple access code design. Recent theoretical advancements highlight that an ISAC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Kai-Kit Wong , Zaichen Zhang , Christos Masouros

Efficient multiple access remains a key challenge for emerging Internet of Things (IoT) networks comprising a large set of devices with sporadic activation, thus motivating significant research in the last few years. In this paper, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Ophelia Giannini , Gabriel Martins de Jesus , Roberto Verdone , Onel Alcaraz López

This paper investigates asynchronous multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) massive unsourced random access (URA) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system over frequency-selective fading channels, with the presence of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Tianya Li , Yongpeng Wu , Junyuan Gao , Wenjun Zhang , Xiang-Gen Xia , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chengshan Xiao

The recent research has established an analogy between successive interference cancellation in slotted ALOHA framework and iterative belief-propagation erasure-decoding, which has opened the possibility to enhance random access protocols by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-07-02 Cedomir Stefanovic , Petar Popovski