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In this work we treat the unsourced random access problem on a Rayleigh block-fading AWGN channel with multiple receive antennas. Specifically, we consider the slowly fading scenario where the coherence block-length is large compared to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Alexander Fengler , Osman Musa , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems aim to expand the coverage area of wireless networks by replacing a single high-performance Access Point (AP) with multiple small, distributed APs connected to a Central Processing Unit (CPU) through a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Michail Gkagkos , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Costas N. Georghiades , Krishna R. Narayanan

This paper investigates a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided unsourced random access (URA) scheme for the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks with massive sporadic traffic devices. First of all, this paper proposes a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Xiaodan Shao , Lei Cheng , Xiaoming Chen , Chongwen Huang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

This paper investigates the problem of resource allocation for joint communication and radar sensing system on rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system. UAV simultaneously communicates with multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Yuwei Li , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian , Meihui Hua , Shaoshuai Fan

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

The problem of uplink transmissions in massive connectivity is commonly dealt with using schemes for grant-free random access. When a large number of devices transmit almost synchronously, the receiver may not be able to resolve the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Ao Chen , Wei Chen , Bo Ai , Petar Popovski

This paper considers the unsourced random access (URA) problem with a random and unknown number of active users in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) quasi-static Rayleigh fading channels. We derive non-asymptotic achievability bounds on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Junyuan Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Giuseppe Caire , Wei Yang , H. Vincent Poor , Wenjun Zhang

This article presents a novel transmission scheme for the unsourced, uncoordinated Gaussian multiple access problem. The proposed scheme leverages notions from single-user coding, random spreading, minimum-mean squared error (MMSE)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Asit Kumar Pradhan , Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland

In this paper, a novel uncoordinated random access (URA) protocol is presented to address the pressing demand for massive connectivity with low access latency in future massive machine type communication (mMTC) scenarios. The proposed URA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Pengyu Gao , Qu Luo , Jing Zhu , Gaojie Chen , Pei Xiao , Chuan Heng Foh

We present an unsourced multiple access (UMAC) scheme tailored to high-mobility wireless channels. The proposed construction is based on orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation and sparse interleaver division multiple access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Davide Bergamasco , Federico Clazzer , Paolo Casari

We examine unsourced random access in a fully asynchronous setup, where active users transmit their data without restriction on the start time over a fading channel. In the proposed scheme, the transmitted signal consists of a pilot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Mert Ozates , Mohammad Kazemi , Gianluigi Liva , Deniz Gündüz

This work introduces security for unsourced random access (URA) by employing physical layer security techniques. To achieve confidentiality, the proposed system opportunistically exploits intrinsic features of feedback-aided URA without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

We consider the problem of type estimation over unsourced multiple access fading channels in distributed multiple-input multiple-output (D-MIMO) systems. Unlike classical unsourced multiple access, type-based unsourced multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kaan Okumus , Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi , Erik G. Ström

Type-based unsourced multiple access (TUMA) is a recently proposed framework for type-based estimation in massive uncoordinated access networks. We extend the existing design of TUMA, developed for an additive white Gaussian channel, to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Kaan Okumus , Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi , Erik G. Ström

This article considers the massive MIMO unsourced random access problem on a quasi-static Rayleigh fading channel. Given a fixed message length and a prescribed number of channel uses, the objective is to construct a coding scheme that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Michail Gkagkos , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Costas N. Georghiades

The thesis is dedicated to studying methods to improve the efficiency of random access schemes and to facilitate their deployment in machine-type communications (MTC). First, a joint user activity identification and channel estimation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Zhuo Sun

This paper considers near-field multiuser communications based on sparse arrays (SAs). First, for the uniform SAs (USAs), we analyze the beam gains of channel steering vectors, which shows that increasing the antenna spacings can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Kangjian Chen , Chenhao Qi , Geoffrey Ye Li , Octavia A. Dobre

Unsourced multiple access abstracts grantless simultaneous communication of a large number of devices (messages) each of which transmits (is transmitted) infrequently. It provides a model for machine-to-machine communication in the Internet…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-13 Robert Calderbank , Andrew Thompson

Emerging communication networks are envisioned to support massive wireless connectivity of heterogeneous devices with sporadic traffic and diverse requirements in terms of latency, reliability, and bandwidth. Providing multiple access to an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Sajad Daei , Marios Kountouris

This paper investigates the unsourced random access (URA) problem for integrated sensing and commutations (ISAC). Recent results reveal that conventional multiple access strategies for ISAC such as treating interference as noise (TIN) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Zhentian Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong , Jian Dang , Zaichen Zhang , Chan-Byoung Chae