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The Internet of Things paradigm heavily relies on a network of a massive number of machine-type devices (MTDs) that monitor various phenomena. Consequently, MTDs are randomly activated at different times whenever a change occurs. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Leatile Marata , Esa Ollila , Hirley Alves

User activity detection in grant-free random access massive machine type communication (mMTC) using pilot-hopping sequences can be formulated as solving a non-negative least squares (NNLS) problem. In this work, two architectures using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Narges Mohammadi Sarband , Ema Becirovic , Mattias Krysander , Erik G. Larsson , Oscar Gustafsson

Data aggregation is a promising approach to enable massive machine-type communication (mMTC). Here, we first characterize the aggregation phase where a massive number of machine-type devices transmits to their respective aggregator. By…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Onel L. Alcaraz López , Hirley Alves , Pedro H. J. Nardelli , Matti Latva-aho

Recently, grant-free transmission paradigm has been introduced for massive Internet of Things (IoT) networks to save both time and bandwidth and transmit the message with low latency. In order to accurately decode the message of each device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-04 Mehrtash Mehrabi , Mostafa Mohammadkarimi , Masoud Ardakani

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) in 6G requires supporting a massive number of devices with limited resources, posing challenges in efficient random access. Grant-free random access and uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Thushan Sivalingam , Samad Ali , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva Aho

With the increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, Machine Type Communication (MTC) has become an important use case of the Fifth Generation (5G) communication systems. Since MTC devices are mostly disconnected from Base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Junseok Kim , Seongwon Kim , T. Taleb , Sunghyun Choi

This paper provides a solution for the activity detection and channel estimation problem in grant-free access with correlated device activity patterns. In particular, we consider a machine-type communications (MTC) network operating in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Hamza Djelouat , Mikko J. Sillanpää , Markku Juntti

Inspired by group testing algorithms and the coded computation paradigm, we propose and analyze a novel multiple access scheme for detecting active users in large-scale networks. The scheme consists of a simple randomized detection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Matthias Frey , Igor Bjelaković , Sławomir Stańczak

This paper studies the device activity detection problem in a massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system for near-field communications (NFC). In this system, active devices transmit their signature sequences to the base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ziyue Wang , Yang Li , Ya-Feng Liu , Junjie Ma

Device activity detection in the emerging cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems has been recognized as a crucial task in machine-type communications, in which multiple access points (APs) jointly identify the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yang Li , Qingfeng Lin , Ya-Feng Liu , Bo Ai , Yik-Chung Wu

Most existing works on random access for machine-type communication (MTC) assume independent device activities. However, in several Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, device activities are driven by events and hence may be correlated.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Wang Liu , Ying Cui , Lianghui Ding , Jun Sun , Yangyang Liu , Yang Li , Li Zhang

Most existing studies on joint activity detection and channel estimation for grant-free massive random access (RA) systems assume perfect synchronization among all active users, which is hard to achieve in practice. Therefore, this paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Xinyu Bian , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

To support the modern machine-type communications, a crucial task during the random access phase is device activity detection, which is to detect the active devices from a large number of potential devices based on the received signal at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Yang Li , Zhilin Chen , Yunqi Wang , Chenyang Yang , Yik-Chung Wu

This paper considers joint device activity detection and channel estimation in Internet of Things (IoT) networks, where a large number of IoT devices exist but merely a random subset of them become active for short-packet transmission at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Qipeng Wang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Francis C. M. Lau

Billions of Machine Type Communication (MTC) devices are foreseen to be deployed in next ten years and therefore potentially open a new market for next generation wireless network. However, MTC applications have different characteristics…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Ji Lianghai , Liu Man , Hans D. Schotten

The number of wireless devices which are connected to a single Wireless Local Area Network continues to grow each year. As a result, the orchestration of so many devices becomes a daunting, resource--consuming task, especially when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-19 George Vershinin , Asaf Cohen , Omer Gurewitz

Modern wireless networks must reliably support a wide array of connectivity demands, encompassing various user needs across diverse scenarios. Machine-Type Communication (mMTC) is pivotal in these networks, particularly given the challenges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Ali Elkeshawy , HaÏfa Farès , Amor Nafkha

This paper considers the massive connectivity application in which a large number of potential devices communicate with a base-station (BS) in a sporadic fashion. The detection of device activity pattern together with the estimation of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Zhilin Chen , Foad Sohrabi , Wei Yu

The multi-panel array, as a state-of-the-art antenna-in-package technology, is very suitable for millimeter-wave (mmWave)/terahertz (THz) systems, due to its low-cost deployment and scalable configuration. But in the context of nonuniform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Hanlin Xiu , Zhen Gao , Anwen Liao , Yikun Mei , Dezhi Zheng , Shufeng Tan , Marco Di Renzo , Lajos Hanzo

Modern wireless machine-to-machine-type communications aim to provide both ultra reliability and low latency, stringent requirements that appear to be mutually exclusive. From the noisy channel coding theorem, we know that reliable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Diego Barragán Guerrero , Minh Au , Ghyslain Gagnon , François Gagnon , Pascal Giard