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In this paper, we study a concatenate coding scheme based on sparse regression code (SPARC) and tree code for unsourced random access in massive multiple-input and multiple-output systems. Our focus is concentrated on efficient decoding for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Juntao You , Wenjie Wang , Shansuo Liang , Wei Han , Bo Bai

The unsourced random access (URA) has emerged as a viable scheme for supporting the massive machine-type communications (mMTC) in the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks. Notably, the tensor-based URA (TURA), with its inherent tensor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-23 Jiaqi Fang , Yan Liang , Gangle Sun , Hongwei Hou , Yafei Wang , Li You , Wenjin Wang

This paper addresses the unsourced/uncoordinated random access problem in an integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system, with a focus on uplink multiple access code design. Recent theoretical advancements highlight that an ISAC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Kai-Kit Wong , Zaichen Zhang , Christos Masouros

We consider the approximate support recovery (ASR) task of inferring the support of a $K$-sparse vector ${\bf x} \in \mathbb{R}^n$ from $m$ noisy measurements. We examine the case where $n$ is large, which precludes the application of…

This paper proposes a unified semi-blind detection framework for sourced and unsourced random access (RA), which enables next-generation ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) with massive devices. Specifically, the active…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Malong Ke , Zhen Gao , Mingyu Zhou , Dezhi Zheng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, an improved ALOHA-based unsourced random access (URA) scheme is proposed in MIMO channels. The channel coherent interval is divided into multiple sub-slots and each active user selects several sub-slots to send its codeword,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Linjie Yang , Pingzhi Fan , Zhiguo Ding , Jingqiu Gao

Unsourced random access (URA) has emerged as a candidate paradigm for massive machine-type communication (MTC) in next-generation wireless networks. While many excellent uplink schemes have been developed for URA, these schemes do not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Jamison R. Ebert , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland

This article introduces a novel paradigm for the unsourced multiple-access communication problem. This divide-and-conquer approach leverages recent advances in compressive sensing and forward error correction to produce a computationally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Avinash Vem , Dileep Kumar Soma , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland

Massive random access of devices in the emerging Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) brings great challenge to the access control and management. Exploiting the bursting nature of the access requests, sparse active user detection (SAUD) is an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Xiao Tang , Sicong Liu , Xiaojiang Du , Mohsen Guizani

Future 5G cellular networks supporting ultra-reliable, low-latency communications (URLLC) could employ random access communication to reduce the overhead compared to scheduled access techniques used in 4G networks. We consider a wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-06 Derya Malak , Howard Huang , Jeffrey G. Andrews

In this work, we present the design for both pilot-uncoupled and pilot-free on-off multiple access (ODMA) receivers in unsourced random access (URA) for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. Unlike pilot-coupled ODMA, where on-off…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Zaichen Zhang

Extremely large antenna arrays (ELAAs) are widely adopted in mmWave/THz communications to compensate for the severe path loss, wherein the channel estimation remains a significant challenge since the Rayleigh distance of ELAAs stretches to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Yiming Chen , Hongwei Wang , Lingxiang Li , Zhi Chen

Unsourced random access (URA) has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling massive connectivity in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. However, since URA transmissions do not contain device identifiers, the receiver may not associate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Wenbo Fan , Zeping Sui , Yuhei Takahashi , Jun Cheng , Zilong Liu , Pingzhi Fan

We consider wireless networks of remote radio heads (RRH) with large antenna-arrays, operated in TDD, with uplink (UL) training and channel-reciprocity based downlink (DL) transmission. To achieve large area spectral efficiencies, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Ozgun Y. Bursalioglu , Chenwei Wang , Haralabos Papadopoulos , Giuseppe Caire

This work considers distributed sensing and transmission of sporadic random samples. Lower bounds are derived for the reconstruction error of a single normally or uniformly-distributed finite-dimensional vector imperfectly measured by a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-11-20 Ayşe Ünsal , Raymond Knopp

The performance of grant-free random access (GF-RA) is limited by the number of accessible random access resources (RRs) due to the absence of collision resolution. Compressive sensing (CS)-based RA schemes scale up the RRs at the expense…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Ameha Tsegaye Abebe , Chung G. Kang

In this paper, we investigate a joint device activity detection (DAD), channel estimation (CE), and data decoding (DD) algorithm for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) massive unsourced random access (URA). Different from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Tianya Li , Yongpeng Wu , Mengfan Zheng , Wenjun Zhang , Chengwen Xing , Jianping An , Xiang-Gen Xia , Chengshan Xiao

We investigate the coexistence of massive and critical Internet of Things (IoT) services in the context of the unsourced multiple access (UMA) framework introduced by Polyanskiy (2017), where all users employ a common codebook and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Petar Popovski , Anders E. Kalor , Beatriz Soret

Despite being the subject of a growing body of research, non-orthogonal multiple access has failed to garner sufficient support to be included in modern standards. One of the more promising approaches to non-orthogonal multiple access is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Dylan Wheeler , Erin E. Tripp , Balasubramaniam Natarajan

A framework for the analysis of synchronous grant-free massive multiple access schemes based on the irregular repetition slotted ALOHA (IRSA) protocol and operating over the Gaussian multiple access channel is presented. IRSA-based schemes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Velio Tralli , Enrico Paolini