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This paper studies the massive machine-type communications (mMTC) for the future Internet of Things (IoT) applications, where a large number of IoT devices exist in the network and a random subset of them become active at each time instant.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Lei Cheng , Liang Liu , Shuguang Cui

This paper considers a joint scattering environment sensing and data recovery problem in an uplink integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. To facilitate joint scatterers localization and multi-user (MU) channel estimation, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-11 An Liu , Wenkang Xu , Wei Xu , Giuseppe Caire

We propose efficient and low-complexity multiuser detection (MUD) algorithms for Gaussian multiple access channel (G-MAC) for short-packet transmission in massive machine type communications. To do so, we first formulate the G-MAC MUD…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Mostafa Mohammadkarimi , Masoud Ardakani

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

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

Millimeter-wave (mmW)/Terahertz (THz) wideband communication employing a large-scale antenna array is a promising technique of the sixth-generation (6G) wireless network for realizing massive machine-type communications (mMTC). To reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Xiaodan Shao , Xiaoming Chen , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

For massive machine-type communications, centralized control may incur a prohibitively high overhead. Grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) provides possible solutions, yet poses new challenges for efficient receiver design. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-07 Shuchao Jiang , Xiaojun Yuan , Xin Wang , Chongbin Xu , Wei Yu

Massive connectivity is a critical challenge of Internet of Things (IoT) networks. In this paper, we consider the grant-free uplink transmission of an IoT network with a multi-antenna base station (BS) and a large number of single-antenna…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-23 Shuang Liang , Yuanming Shi , Yong Zhou

This paper studies joint spectrum allocation and user association in large heterogeneous cellular networks. The objective is to maximize some network utility function based on given traffic statistics collected over a slow timescale,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Binnan Zhuang , Dongning Guo , Ermin Wei , Michael L. Honig

This paper considers the channel estimation (CE) and multi-user detection (MUD) problems in cloud radio access network (C-RAN). Assuming that active users are sparse in the network, we solve CE and MUD problems with compressed sensing (CS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Qi He , Tony Q. S. Quek , Zhi Chen , Shaoqian Li

Mobile edge caching (MEC) has been introduced to support ever-growing end-users' needs. To reduce the backhaul traffic demand and content delivery latency, cache-enabled edge servers at base stations (BSs) are employed to provision popular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-01 Susanna Mosleh , Qiang Fan , Lingjia Liu , Jonathan D. Ashdown , Erik Perrins , Kurt Turck

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

Most existing random access schemes for machine-type communications (MTC) simply adopt a uniform preamble selection distribution, irrespective of the underlying device activity distributions. Hence, they may yield unsatisfactory access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Wang Liu , Ying Cui , Feng Yang , Lianghui Ding , Jun Sun

This paper proposes a computationally efficient algorithm to solve the joint data and activity detection problem for massive random access with massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). The BS acquires the active devices and their data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Ziyue Wang , Zhilin Chen , Ya-Feng Liu , Foad Sohrabi , Wei Yu

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a key challenge in pervasive computing and its solutions have been presented based on various disciplines. Specifically, for HAR in a smart space without privacy and accessibility issues, data streams…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Hyunju Kim , Heesuk Son , Dongman Lee

In the massive machine-type communication (mMTC) scenario, a large number of devices with sporadic traffic need to access the network on limited radio resources. While grant-free random access has emerged as a promising mechanism for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-13 Xinyu Bian , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

To address the challenges of high-dimensional channel estimation and underutilized spatial correlations among users in holographic MIMO (HMIMO) systems, this paper proposes a joint graph-cut algorithm for multi-user channel estimation in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Jiaxin Zhang , Wenqian Shen , Kai Yang , Zhen Gao , Jianping An

Secured opportunistic Medium Access Control (MAC) and complexity reduction in channel estimation are proposed in the Cross layer design Cognitive Radio Networks deploying the secured dynamic channel allocation from the endorsed channel…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Niraj Shakhakarmi

We consider unsourced random access (uRA) in a cell-free (CF) user-centric wireless network, where a large number of potential users compete for a random access slot, while only a finite subset is active. The random access users transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Burak Çakmak , Eleni Gkiouzepi , Manfred Opper , Giuseppe Caire

This paper addresses the problem of joint downlink channel estimation and user grouping in massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, where the motivation comes from the fact that the channel estimation performance can be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-30 Jisheng Dai , An Liu , Vincent K. N. Lau