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Tailor-made for massive connectivity and sporadic access, grant-free random access has become a promising candidate access protocol for massive machine-type communications (mMTC). Compared with conventional grant-based protocols, grant-free…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-26 Zhaoji Zhang , Qinghua Guo , Ying Li , Ming Jin , Chongwen Huang

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

In this work, we present a joint channel estimation, activity detection and data decoding scheme for massive machine-type communications. By including the channel and the a priori activity factor in the factor graph, we present the bilinear…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-24 R. B. Di Renna , R. C. de Lamare

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

Many applications in cellular systems and sensor networks involve a random subset of a large number of users asynchronously reporting activity to a base station. This paper examines the problem of multiuser detection (MUD) in random access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Lorne Applebaum , Waheed U. Bajwa , Marco F. Duarte , Robert Calderbank

Future cellular networks will support a massive number of devices as a result of emerging technologies such as Internet-of-Things and sensor networks. Enhanced by machine type communication (MTC), low-power low-complex devices in the order…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Kamil Senel , Erik G. Larsson

This paper investigates joint device activity detection and channel estimation for grant-free random access in Low-earth orbit (LEO) satellite communications. We consider uplink communications from multiple single-antenna terrestrial users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Rui Mao , Yongpeng Wu , Boxiao Shen , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten , Wenjun Zhang

Internet of Things (IoT) has triggered a rapid increase in the number of connected devices and new use cases of wireless communications. To meet the new demands, the fifth generation (5G) of wireless communication systems features native…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-28 Leatile Marata , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , Eduardo Noboro Tominaga , Hirley Alves

Accurate channel estimation in massive multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (MIMO-OFDM) systems is challenging when the number of pilot symbols is much smaller than the number of transmit antennas.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Xiucheng Wang , Nan Cheng , Yiyan Zhang , Ruijin Sun , Haixia Peng

Fast and accurate device activity detection is the critical challenge in grant-free access for supporting massive machine-type communications (mMTC) and ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) in 5G and beyond. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-25 Bowen Tan , Ying Cui

This work considers an uplink asynchronous massive random access scenario in which a large number of users asynchronously access a base station equipped with multiple receive antennas. The objective is to alleviate the problem of massive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Zhichao Shao , Xiaojun Yuan , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Yong Zhang

Orthogonal delay-Doppler division multiplexing~(ODDM) modulation has recently been regarded as a promising technology to provide reliable communications in high-mobility situations. Accurate and low-complexity channel estimation is one of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Dezhi Wang , Chongwen Huang , Xiaojun Yuan , Sami Muhaidat , Lei Liu , Xiaoming Chen , Zhaoyang Zhang , Chau Yuen , Mérouane Debbah

Approximate message passing (AMP) algorithms are iterative methods for signal recovery in noisy linear systems. In some scenarios, AMP algorithms need to operate within a distributed network. To address this challenge, the distributed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-26 Jun Lu , Lei Liu , Shunqi Huang , Ning Wei , Xiaoming Chen

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

In this paper, we propose a turbo receiver for joint activity detection and data decoding in grant-free massive random access, which iterates between a detector and a belief propagation (BP)-based channel decoder. Specifically, responsible…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-21 Xinyu Bian , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

Compressed sensing multi-user detection (CS-MUD) algorithms play a key role in optimizing grant-free (GF) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) for massive machine-type communications (mMTC). However, current CS-MUD algorithms cannot be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Leatile Marata , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , Andreas Hauptmann , Hamza Djelouat , Hirley Alves

This paper considers the joint channel estimation and device activity detection in the grant-free random access systems, where a large number of Internet-of-Things devices intend to communicate with a low-earth orbit satellite in a sporadic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-10 Boxiao Shen , Yongpeng Wu , Jianping An , Chengwen Xing , Lian Zhao , Wenjun Zhang

We study the Gaussian multiple access channel with random user activity, in the regime where the number of users is proportional to the code length. The receiver may know some statistics about the number of active users, but does not know…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xiaoqi Liu , Pablo Pascual Cobo , Ramji Venkataramanan

This paper addresses the problem of joint user identification and channel estimation (JUICE) for grant-free access in massive machine-type communications (mMTC). We consider the JUICE under a spatially correlated fading channel model as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-09 Hamza Djelouat , Leatile Marata , Markus Leinonen , Hirley Alves , Markku Juntti

This paper investigates the issue of cooperative activity detection for grant-free random access in the sixth-generation (6G) cell-free wireless networks with sourced and unsourced paradigms. First, we propose a cooperative framework for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Xiaodan Shao , Xiaoming Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang