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In next generation Internet-of-Things, the overhead introduced by grant-based multiple access protocols may engulf the access network as a consequence of the unprecedented number of connected devices. Grant-free access protocols are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-16 Lorenzo Valentini , Marco Chiani , Enrico Paolini

In this paper, a novel transceiver architecture is proposed to simultaneously achieve efficient random access and reliable data transmission in massive IoT networks. At the transmitter side, each user is assigned a unique protocol sequence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Linjie Yang , Pingzhi Fan , Li Li , Zhiguo Ding , Li Hao

The proliferating number of devices with short payloads as well as low power budget has already driven researchers away from classical grant-based access schemes that are notorious for their large signalling overhead as well as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Rana Abbas , Tao Huang , Basit Shahab , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO is important for beyond 5G or 6G wireless communication networks. The goal of this paper is to establish successful communication between the cellular base stations and devices, focusing on the problem of joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-08 Yinchuan Li , Yuancheng Zhan , Le Zheng , Xiaodong Wang

With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), massive machine-type communication has become a promising application scenario, where a large number of devices transmit sporadically to a base station (BS). Reconfigurable intelligent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Shuhao Xia , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou , Xiaojun Yuan

With the arrival of 6G, the Internet of Things (IoT) traffic is becoming more and more complex and diverse. To meet the diverse service requirements of IoT devices, massive machine-type communications (mMTC) becomes a typical scenario, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-19 Zhongwen Sun , Wei Chen , Yuxuan Sun , Bo Ai

Non-fixed flexible antenna architectures, such as fluid antenna system (FAS), movable antenna (MA), and pinching antenna, have garnered significant interest in recent years. Among them, rotatable antenna (RA) technology has recently drawn…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-06 Yanhua Tan , Beixiong Zheng , Yi Fang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Jie Xu , Rui Zhang

Cell-free communication has the potential to significantly improve grant-free transmission in massive machine-type communication, wherein multiple access points jointly serve a large number of user equipments to improve coverage and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Gangle Sun , Mengyao Cao , Wenjin Wang , Wei Xu , Christoph Studer

We investigate the activity detection and channel estimation issues for cell-free Internet of Things (IoT) networks with massive random access. In each time slot, only partial devices are active and communicate with neighboring access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Xinhua Wang , Alexei Ashikhmin , Zhicheng Dong , Chao Zhai

Data aggregation is a promising approach to enable massive machine-type communication (mMTC). This paper focuses on the aggregation phase where a massive number of machine-type devices (MTDs) transmit to aggregators. By using non-orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Onel L. Alcaraz López , Hirley Alves , Pedro Nardelli , Matti Latva-aho

5G wireless networks are expected to support new services with stringent requirements on data rates, latency and reliability. One novel feature is the ability to serve a dense crowd of devices, calling for radically new ways of accessing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Elisabeth de Carvalho , Emil Björnson , Jesper H. Sørensen , Petar Popovski , Erik G. Larsson

Grant-free transmission is considered as a promising technology to support sporadic data transmission in massive machine-type communications (mMTC). Due to the distributed manner, high collision probability is an inherent drawback of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Hui Jiang , Qimei Cui , Yu Gu , Xiaoqi Qin , Xuefei Zhang , Xiaofeng Tao

We consider a multichannel random access system in which each user accesses a single channel at each time slot to communicate with an access point (AP). Users arrive to the system at random and be activated for a certain period of time…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Muhammad Sohaib , Jongjin Jeong , Sang-Woon Jeon

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has been recognized as a promising and powerful multiple access (MA) scheme, non-orthogonal transmission framework and interference management strategy for 6G. Inspired by the appealing spectral…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Tianyu Fang , Yijie Mao , Shanpu Shen , Zhencai Zhu , Bruno Clerckx

Cell-Free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) are two promising technologies for application to beyond-5G networks. This paper considers Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems with the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Trinh Van Chien , Hien Quoc Ngo , Symeon Chatzinotas , Marco Di Renzo , Björn Ottersten

As a main use case of 5G and Beyond wireless network, the ever-increasing machine type communications (MTC) devices pose critical challenges over MTC network in recent years. It is imperative to support massive MTC devices with limited…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Ziru Chen , Ran Zhang , Lin X. Cai , Yu Cheng , Yong Liu

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) is emerging as a pivotal technology for next-generation wireless networks. However, existing ISAC systems are based on fixed-position antennas (FPAs), which inevitably incur a loss in performance…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Jingze Ding , Zijian Zhou , Xiaodan Shao , Bingli Jiao , Rui Zhang

The industrial Internet of things (IIoT) is revolutionizing industrial processes by facilitating massive machine-type communications among countless interconnected devices. To efficiently handle the resulting large-scale and sporadic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Enrico Testi , Giulia Torcolacci , Nicolò Decarli , Davide Dardari , Enrico Paolini

Current wireless networks are designed to optimize spectral efficiency for human users, who typically require sustained connections for high-data-rate applications like file transfers and video streaming. However, these networks are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kirill Andreev , Pavel Rybin , Alexey Frolov

Rotatable antenna (RA) is a promising technology that can exploit new spatial degrees-of-freedom (DoFs) by flexibly adjusting the three-dimensional (3D) boresight direction of antennas. In this letter, we investigate an RA-enhanced…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Kecheng Pan , Beixiong Zheng , Yanhua Tan , Emil Björnson , Robert Schober , Rui Zhang