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In this work we treat the unsourced random access problem on a Rayleigh block-fading AWGN channel with multiple receive antennas. Specifically, we consider the slowly fading scenario where the coherence block-length is large compared to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Alexander Fengler , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, an improved ALOHA-based unsourced random access (URA) scheme is proposed in MIMO channels. The channel coherent interval is divided into multiple sub-slots and each active user selects several sub-slots to send its codeword,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Linjie Yang , Pingzhi Fan , Zhiguo Ding , Jingqiu Gao

This paper investigates the energy efficiency of massive unsourced random access~(URA) in multiple-input multiple-output quasi-static Rayleigh fading channels. Specifically, we derive achievability and converse bounds on the minimum…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Junyuan Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Tianya Li , Wenjun Zhang

In this paper, a novel uncoordinated random access (URA) protocol is presented to address the pressing demand for massive connectivity with low access latency in future massive machine type communication (mMTC) scenarios. The proposed URA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Pengyu Gao , Qu Luo , Jing Zhu , Gaojie Chen , Pei Xiao , Chuan Heng Foh

We derive an achievability bound to quantify the performance of a type-based unsourced multiple access system -- an information-theoretic model for grant-free multiple access with correlated messages. The bound extends available…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Deekshith Pathayappilly Krishnan , Kaan Okumus , Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi

We consider a classical multiple access system with a single transmission channel, finite number of users (users), and randomized transmission protocol (ALOHA). We assume that every user sends messages to the base station with various…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Dmitriy Kim , Georgi Georgiev , Natalya Markovskaya

This paper studies strategic design in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) architecture for feedback control of cyber-physical systems. We focus on a setting in which the regulation of a physical process (i.e., remote source) is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Touraj Soleymani , Mohamad Assaad , John S. Baras

Type-based unsourced multiple access (TUMA) is a recently proposed framework for type-based estimation in massive uncoordinated access networks. We extend the existing design of TUMA, developed for an additive white Gaussian channel, to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Kaan Okumus , Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi , Erik G. Ström

In this work we treat the unsourced random access problem on a Rayleigh block-fading AWGN channel with multiple receive antennas. Specifically, we consider the slowly fading scenario where the coherence block-length is large compared to the…

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

Reducing negative user experiences is essential for the success of recommendation platforms. Exposing users to inappropriate content could not only adversely affect users' psychological well-beings, but also potentially drive users away…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Chenghui Yu , Peiyi Li , Haoze Wu , Yiri Wen , Bingfeng Deng , Hongyu Xiong

Massive communication is one of key scenarios of 6G where two magnitude higher connection density would be required to serve diverse services. As a promising direction, unsourced multiple access has been proved to outperform significantly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yifei Yuan , Yuhong Huang , Chunlin Yan , Sen Wang , Shuai Ma , Xiaodong Shen

This paper investigates the unsourced random access (URA) problem for integrated sensing and commutations (ISAC). Recent results reveal that conventional multiple access strategies for ISAC such as treating interference as noise (TIN) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Zhentian Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong , Jian Dang , Zaichen Zhang , Chan-Byoung Chae

Beamforming techniques utilizing only partial channel state information (CSI) has gained popularity over other communication strategies requiring perfect CSI thanks to their lower feedback requirements. The amount of feedback in beamforming…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Tharaka Samarasinghe , Hazer Inaltekin , Jamie Evans

We present finite-blocklength achievability bounds for the unsourced A-channel. In this multiple-access channel, users noiselessly transmit codewords picked from a common codebook with entries generated from a $q$-ary alphabet. At each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Alejandro Lancho , Alexander Fengler , Yury Polyanskiy

A simple feedback control algorithm is presented for distributed beamforming in a wireless network. A network of wireless sensors that seek to cooperatively transmit a common message signal to a Base Station (BS) is considered. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 R. Mudumbai , J. Hespanha , U. Madhow , G. Barriac

Unsourced multiple access abstracts grantless simultaneous communication of a large number of devices (messages) each of which transmits (is transmitted) infrequently. It provides a model for machine-to-machine communication in the Internet…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-13 Robert Calderbank , Andrew Thompson

In this article, we establish a comprehensive theoretical framework for remote estimation in a networked system composed of a source that is observed by a sensor, a remote monitor that needs to estimate the state of the source in real time,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Touraj Soleymani , Mohamad Assaad , John S. Baras

This paper considers a class of multi-channel random access algorithms, where contending devices may send multiple copies (replicas) of their messages to the central base station. We first develop a hypothetical algorithm that delivers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Olga Galinina , Andrey Turlikov , Sergey Andreev , Yevgeni Koucheryavy

In this paper, we consider uplink transmissions involving multiple users communicating with a base station over a fading channel. We assume that the base station does not coordinate the transmissions of the users and hence the users employ…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2009-08-25 Nitin Salodkar , Abhay Karandikar

This paper investigates the problem of joint massive devices separation and channel estimation for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided unsourced random access (URA) scheme in the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Xiaodan Shao , Lei Cheng , Xiaoming Chen , Chongwen Huang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng