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The cellular Internet-of-Things has resulted in the deployment of millions of machine-type communication (MTC) devices. These massive number of devices must communicate with a single gNodeB (gNB) via the random access channel (RACH)…

We investigate fully asynchronous unsourced random access (URA), and propose a high-performing scheme that employs on-off division multiple access (ODMA). In this scheme, active users distribute their data over the transmit block based on a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Mert Ozates , Mohammad Kazemi , Gianluigi Liva , Deniz Gündüz

The construction of preamble sequences for channel estimation by superposition of orthogonal pilots can improve performance of massive grant-free uplink from machine-type devices. In this letter, a technique is proposed to obtain full…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Lorenzo Valentini , Elena Bernardi , Enrico Paolini

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

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-enabled backscatter communications can be enabled by an access point (AP) that splits its transmit signal into modulated and unmodulated parts. This letter integrates non-orthogonal multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Azar Hakimi , Shayan Zargari , Chintha Tellambura , Sanjeewa Herath

In the context of satellite communications, random access (RA) methods can significantly increase throughput and reduce latency over the network. The recent RA methods are based on multi-user multiple access transmission at the same time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-16 Karine Zidane , Jérôme Lacan , Marie-Laure Boucheret , Charly Poulliat

We consider irregular product codes.In this class of codes, each codeword is represented by a matrix. The entries in each row (column) of the matrix should come from a component row (column) code. As opposed to (standard) product codes, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-06-12 Masoud Alipour , Omid Etesami , Ghid Maatouk , Amin Shokrollahi

This letter proposes a novel hybrid automatic repeat request with chase combining assisted sparse code multiple access (HARQ-CC-SCMA) scheme. Depending on whether the same superimposed packet are retransmitted, synchronous and asynchronous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Man Wang , Zheng Shi , Yunfei Li , Xianda Wu , Weiqiang Tan , Xinrong Ye

Algorithms are presented that efficiently shape the parity bits of systematic irregular repeat-accumulate (IRA) low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes by following the sequential encoding order of the accumulator. Simulations over additive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Diego Lentner , Thomas Wiegart , Richard D. Wesel

We consider a random access network consisting of source-destination pairs. Each source node generates status updates and transmits this information to its intended destination over a shared spectrum. The goal is to minimize the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Zhiling Yue , Howard H. Yang , Meng Zhang , Nikolaos Pappas

Multi-antenna coded caching (CC) with multicast beamforming typically relies on a complex successive interference cancellation (SIC) structure to decode a superposition of multiple streams received by each user. Signal-level CC schemes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-28 MohammadJavad Sojdeh , MohammadJavad Salehi , Antti Tölli

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has been recognized as a promising physical layer strategy for 6G. Motivated by ever increasing popularity of cache-enabled content delivery in wireless communications, this paper proposes an innovative…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Robert-Jeron Reifert , Alaa Alameer Ahmad , Yijie Mao , Aydin Sezgin , Bruno Clerckx

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is expected to be offered as a fundamental service in the upcoming sixth-generation (6G) communications standard. However, due to the exposure of information-bearing signals to the sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Vaibhav Kumar , Marwa Chafii , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Le-Nam Tran , Mark F. Flanagan

We introduce a framework to study slotted Aloha with cooperative base stations. Assuming a geographic-proximity communication model, we propose several decoding algorithmswith different degrees of base stations' cooperation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-30 Dusan Jakovetic , Dragana Bajovic , Dejan Vukobratovic , Vladimir Crnojevic

There are now several works on the use of the additive inverse Gaussian noise (AIGN) model for the random transit time in molecular communication~(MC) channels. The randomness invariably causes inter-symbol interference (ISI) in MC, an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Siavash Ghavami , Raviraj Adve , Farshad Lahouti

A mega-constellation of low-altitude earth orbit (LEO) satellites (SATs) are envisaged to provide a global coverage SAT network in beyond fifth-generation (5G) cellular systems. LEO SAT networks exhibit extremely long link distances of many…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Ju-Hyung Lee , Hyowoon Seo , Jihong Park , Mehdi Bennis , Young-Chai Ko

In this paper, we study the coexistence of critical and non-critical Internet of Things (IoT) services on a grant-free channel consisting of radio access and backhaul segments. On the radio access segment, IoT devices send packets to access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Rahif Kassab , Osvaldo Simeone , Andrea Munari , Federico Clazzer

Massive connectivity for Internet of Things applications is expected to challenge the way access reservation protocols are designed in 5G networks. Since the number of devices and their density are envisioned to be orders of magnitude…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Mikhail Vilgelm , Sergio Rueda Linares , Wolfgang Kellerer

We introduce the blind index coding (BIC) problem, in which a single sender communicates distinct messages to multiple users over a shared channel. Each user has partial knowledge of each message as side information. However, unlike classic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-02 David T. H. Kao , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , A. Salman Avestimehr

We present a novel access protocol for crowd scenarios in massive MIMO (Multiple-input multiple-output) systems. Crowd scenarios are characterized by a large number of users with intermittent access behavior, whereby orthogonal scheduling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Jesper H. Sørensen , Elisabeth de Carvalho , Čedomir Stefanović , Petar Popovski