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Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) networks have recently emerged as a promising solution to tackle the challenges arising from next-generation massive machine-type communications. In this paper, a fully grant-free deep learning (DL)-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Muhammad Usman Khan , Enrico Testi , Marco Chiani , Enrico Paolini

In this paper, we explore various multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) techniques to design grant-free random access (RA) schemes for low-complexity, low-power battery operated devices in massive machine-type communication (mMTC)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Muhammad Awais Jadoon , Adriano Pastore , Monica Navarro , Alvaro Valcarce

Grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is considered as one of the supporting technology for massive connectivity for future networks. In the grant-free NOMA systems with a massive number of users, user activity detection is of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-08 Yixuan Zou , Zhijin Qin , Yuanwei Liu

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

The advent of the sixth-generation (6G) of wireless communications has given rise to the necessity to connect vast quantities of heterogeneous wireless devices, which requires advanced system capabilities far beyond existing network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Zhen Gao , Malong Ke , Yikun Mei , Li Qiao , Sheng Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , H. Vincent Poor

The conventional grant-based network relies on the handshaking between base station and active users to achieve dynamic multi-user scheduling, which may cost large signaling overheads as well as system latency. To address those problems,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-27 Fan Wei , Wen Chen , Yongpeng Wu , Jun Ma , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis

In this paper, we study the problem of user activity detection and large-scale fading coefficient estimation in a random access wireless uplink with a massive MIMO base station with a large number $M$ of antennas and a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Alexander Fengler , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

This paper investigates the massive random access for a huge amount of user devices served by a base station (BS) equipped with a massive number of antennas. We consider a grant-free unsourced random access (U-RA) scheme where all users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Xinyu Xie , Yongpeng Wu , Junyuan Gao , Wenjun Zhang

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is a crucial scenario to support booming Internet of Things (IoTs) applications. In mMTC, although a large number of devices are registered to an access point (AP), very few of them are active with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jiaqi Liu , Gang Wu , Xiaoxu Zhang , Shu Fang , Shaoqian Li

When recovering a sparse signal from noisy compressive linear measurements, the distribution of the signal's non-zero coefficients can have a profound effect on recovery mean-squared error (MSE). If this distribution was apriori known, then…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-05 Jeremy P. Vila , Philip Schniter

Cell-Free Massive MIMO is a highly promising approach to enhance network capacity by moving a large number of distributed access points (AP) closer to mobile users while utilizing simple matched filtering and conjugate beamforming. Recent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Indu L. Shakya , Falah H. Ali

In a multitude of industrial fields, a key objective entails optimising resource management whilst satisfying user requirements. Resource management by industrial practitioners can result in a passive transfer of user loads across resource…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Dongxu Lei , Xiaotian Lin , Xinghu Yu , Zhan Li , Weichao Sun , Jianbin Qiu , Songlin Zhuang , Huijun Gao

This work considers uplink asynchronous massive machine-type communications, where a large number of low-power and low-cost devices asynchronously transmit short packets to an access point equipped with multiple receive antennas. If…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Z. Shao , X. Yuan , R. de Lamare

This paper considers the massive connectivity problem in an asynchronous grant-free random access system, where a huge number of devices sporadically transmit data to a base station (BS) with imperfect synchronization. The goal is to design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Weifeng Zhu , Meixia Tao , Xiaojun Yuan , Yunfeng Guan

This paper considers joint active user detection (AUD) and channel estimation (CE) for massive connectivity scenarios with sporadic traffic. The state-of-art method under a Bayesian framework to perform joint AUD and CE in such scenarios is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Jia-Cheng Jiang , Hui-Ming Wang , H. Vincent Poor

Rateless Multiple Access (RMA) is a novel non-orthogonal multiple access framework that is promising for massive access in Internet of Things (IoT) due to its high efficiency and low complexity. In the framework, after certain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zhaoyang Zhang , Xianbin Wang , Yu Zhang , Yan Chen

Faced with the massive connection, sporadic transmission, and small-sized data packets in future cellular communication, a grant-free non-orthogonal random access (NORA) system is considered in this paper, which could reduce the access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Zhaoji Zhang , Ying Li , Chongwen Huang , Qinghua Guo , Chau Yuen , Yong Liang Guan

In this paper, we investigate the joint device activity and data detection in massive machine-type communications (mMTC) with a one-phase non-coherent scheme, where data bits are embedded in the pilot sequences and the base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Zhe Ma , Wen Wu , Feifei Gao , Xuemin , Shen

In this paper, we propose a novel fully Bayesian approach for the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) massive unsourced random access (URA). The payload of each user device is coded by the sparse regression codes (SPARCs) without…

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

Grant-free cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (GF-CF-MaMIMO) systems are anticipated to be a key enabling technology for next-generation Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks, as they support massive connectivity without explicit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Christian Forsch , Laura Cottatellucci