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We consider the problem of unsourced random access (U-RA), a grant-free uncoordinated form of random access, in a wireless channel with a massive MIMO base station equipped with a large number $M$ of antennas and a large number of wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Alexander Fengler , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

This paper is a tutorial introduction to the field of unsourced multiple access (UMAC) protocols. We first provide a historical survey of the evolution of random access protocols, focusing specifically on the case in which uncoordinated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Gianluigi Liva , Yury Polyanskiy

This work considers the problem of integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) with a massive number of unsourced and uncoordinated users. In the proposed model, known as the unsourced ISAC system (UNISAC), all active communication and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

This paper explores the fundamental limits of unsourced random access (URA) with a random and unknown number ${\rm{K}}_a$ of active users in MIMO quasi-static Rayleigh fading channels. First, we derive an upper bound on the probability of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Junyuan Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Giuseppe Caire , Wei Yang , Wenjun Zhang

With the dense deployment of the remote radio heads (RRHs), the huge network power consumption has become a great challenge for green cloud radio access networks (Cloud-RANs), and multiuser downlink beamforming has been proposed as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-16 Zhi Yu , Ke Wang , Lei Chen , Hong Ji

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) or massive access is a critical scenario in the fifth generation (5G) and the future cellular network. With the surging density of devices from millions to billions, unique pilot allocation becomes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Zaichen Zhang , Liang Wu , Bingcheng Zhu , Lei Wang

This paper studies an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system where a multi-antenna base station (BS) communicates with multiple single-antenna users in the downlink and senses the unknown and random angle information of a target…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Chan Xu , Shuowen Zhang

This paper presents a novel multi-stream downlink communication system that utilizes a transmissive reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) transceiver. Specifically, we elaborate the downlink communication scheme using time-modulated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Zhendong Li , Wen Chen , Haoran Qin , Qingqing Wu , Xusheng Zhu , Ziheng Zhang , Jun Li

In this paper, we design a novel two-phase unsourced random access (URA) scheme in massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO). In the first phase, we collect a sequence of information bits to jointly acquire the user channel state…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Jia-Cheng Jiang , Hui-Ming Wang

Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems aim to expand the coverage area of wireless networks by replacing a single high-performance Access Point (AP) with multiple small, distributed APs connected to a Central Processing Unit (CPU) through a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Michail Gkagkos , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Costas N. Georghiades , Krishna R. Narayanan

This paper studies the radio resource management (RRM) for the uplink (UL) of a cellular system with codebook-based hybrid beamforming. We consider the often neglected but highly practical multi-channel case with fewer radio frequency…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Yuan Quan , Haseen Rahman , Catherine Rosenberg

We study downlink beamforming in a single-cell network with a multi-antenna base station (BS) serving cache-enabled users. For a given common rate of the files in the system, we first formulate the minimum transmit power with beamforming at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-20 Junlin Zhao , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gündüz

A high success rate of grant-free random access scheme is proposed to support massive access for machine-to-machine communications in massive multipleinput multiple-output systems. This scheme allows active user equipments (UEs) to transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Huimei Han , Lushun Fang , Weidang Lu , Wenchao Zhai , Ying Li , Jun Zhao

This paper investigates the unsourced random access (URA) scheme to accommodate numerous machine-type users communicating to a base station equipped with multiple antennas. Existing works adopt a slotted transmission strategy to reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Xinyu Xie , Yongpeng Wu , Jianping An , Junyuan Gao , Wenjun Zhang , Chengwen Xing , Kai-Kit Wong , Chengshan Xiao

This paper studies the structure of downlink sum-rate maximizing selective decentralized feedback policies for opportunistic beamforming under finite feedback constraints on the average number of mobile users feeding back. Firstly, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-07-26 Tharaka Samarasinghe , Hazer Inaltekin , Jamie S. Evans

We consider unsourced random access (uRA) in a cell-free (CF) user-centric wireless network, where a large number of potential users compete for a random access slot, while only a finite subset is active. The random access users transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Burak Çakmak , Eleni Gkiouzepi , Manfred Opper , Giuseppe Caire

Communication in high frequencies such as millimeter wave and terahertz suffer from high path-loss and intense shadowing which necessitates beamforming for reliable data transmission. On the other hand, at high frequencies the channels are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Abbas Khalili , Sundeep Rangan , Elza Erkip

This paper proposes a unified semi-blind detection framework for sourced and unsourced random access (RA), which enables next-generation ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) with massive devices. Specifically, the active…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Malong Ke , Zhen Gao , Mingyu Zhou , Dezhi Zheng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , H. Vincent Poor

Identification and authentication are two basic functionalities of traditional random access protocols. In ALOHA-based random access, the packets usually include a field with a unique user address. However, when the number of users is…

In this paper, we explore an efficient uncoupled unsourced random access (UURA) scheme for 6G massive communication. UURA is a typical framework of unsourced random access that addresses the problems of codeword detection and message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Feiyan Tian , Xiaoming Chen , Chongwen Huang , Zhaoyang Zhang