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Grant-free random access (GF-RA) is a promising access technique for massive machine-type communications (mMTC) in future wireless networks, particularly in the context of 5G and beyond (6G) systems. Within the context of GF-RA, this study…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Ali Elkeshawy , Haifa Fares , Amor Nafkha

Grant-free random access is promising for massive connectivity with sporadic transmissions in massive machine type communications (mMTC), where the hand-shaking between the access point (AP) and users is skipped, leading to high access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Zhengdao Yuan , Fei Liu , Qinghua Guo , Xiaojun Yuan , Zhongyong Wang , Yonghui Li

The next wave of wireless technologies will proliferate in connecting sensors, machines, and robots for myriad new applications, thereby creating the fabric for the Internet of Things (IoT). A generic scenario for IoT connectivity involves…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Liang Liu , Erik G. Larsson , Wei Yu , Petar Popovski , Cedomir Stefanovic , Elisabeth De Carvalho

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is a crucial scenario to support booming Internet of Things (IoTs) applications. In mMTC, although a large number of devices are registered to an access point (AP), very few of them are active with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jiaqi Liu , Gang Wu , Xiaoxu Zhang , Shu Fang , Shaoqian Li

Massive MIMO is a promising technology to enable a massive number of Internet of Things nodes to transmit short and sporadic data bursts at low power. In conventional cellular networks, devices use a grant-based random access scheme to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Gilles Callebaut , Liesbet Van der Perre , François Rottenberg

To realize orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based grant-free access for wideband systems under frequency-selective fading, existing device activity detection and channel estimation methods need substantial accuracy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhiyan Li , Ying Cui , Danny H. K. Tsang

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

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

This paper considers a challenging scenario of machine type communications, where we assume internet of things (IoT) devices send short packets sporadically to an access point (AP) and the devices are not synchronized in the packet level.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Yuanyuan Zhang , Zhengdao Yuan , Qinghua Guo , Zhongyong Wang , Jiangtao Xi , Yanguang Yu , Yonghui Li

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

Grant-free random access is a promising protocol to support massive access in beyond fifth-generation (B5G) cellular Internet-of-Things (IoT) with sporadic traffic. Specifically, in each coherence interval, the base station (BS) performs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Xiaodan Shao , Xiaoming Chen , Rundong Jia

Efficient and low-latency wireless connectivity between the base station (BS) and a sparse set of sporadically active devices from a massive number of devices is crucial for random access in emerging massive machine-type communications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jyotish Robin , Elza Erkip

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is one of the main three focus areas in the 5th generation (5G) of mobile standards to enable connectivity of a massive number of internet of things (IoT) devices with little or no human…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-16 Muhammad Basit Shahab , Rana Abbas , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Sarah J. Johnson

Recently, grant-free transmission paradigm has been introduced for massive Internet of Things (IoT) networks to save both time and bandwidth and transmit the message with low latency. In order to accurately decode the message of each device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-04 Mehrtash Mehrabi , Mostafa Mohammadkarimi , Masoud Ardakani

User activity detection in grant-free random access massive machine type communication (mMTC) using pilot-hopping sequences can be formulated as solving a non-negative least squares (NNLS) problem. In this work, two architectures using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Narges Mohammadi Sarband , Ema Becirovic , Mattias Krysander , Erik G. Larsson , Oscar Gustafsson

Most existing studies on joint activity detection and channel estimation for grant-free massive random access (RA) systems assume perfect synchronization among all active users, which is hard to achieve in practice. Therefore, this paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Xinyu Bian , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

We present a connection establishment protocol with integrated authentication, suited for Massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC). The protocol is contention-based and its main feature is that a device contends with a unique signature…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-16 Nuno K. Pratas , Sarath Pattathil , Cedomir Stefanovic , Petar Popovski

This paper revisits the identity detection problem under the current grant-free protocol in massive machine-type communications (mMTC) by asking the following question: for stable identity detection performance, is it enough to permit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Minhao Zhu , Yifei Sun , Lizhao You , Zhaorui Wang , Ya-Feng Liu , Shuguang Cui

With the continuous growth of machine-type devices (MTDs), it is expected that massive machine-type communication (mMTC) will be the dominant form of traffic in future wireless networks. Applications based on this technology, have…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Joao V. C. Evangelista , Zeeshan Sattar , Georges Kaddoum , Bassant Selim , Aydin Sarraf

Device activity detection and channel estimation for massive grant-free access under frequency-selective fading have unfortunately been an outstanding problem. This paper aims to address the challenge. Specifically, we present an orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yuhang Jia , Ying Cui , Wuyang Jiang