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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

We study the problem of unsourced random access (URA) over Rayleigh block-fading channels with a receiver equipped with multiple antennas. We propose a slotted structure with multiple stages of orthogonal pilots, each of which is randomly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Mohammad Kazemi , Tolga M. Duman

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

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

A joint sparse-regression-code (SPARC) and low-density-parity-check (LDPC) coding scheme for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) massive unsourced random access (URA) is proposed in this paper. Different from the state-of-the-art…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Tianya Li , Yongpeng Wu , Mengfan Zheng , Dongming Wang , Wenjun Zhang

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 considers the massive MIMO unsourced random access problem in a quasi-static Rayleigh fading setting. The proposed coding scheme is based on a concatenation of a "conventional" channel code (such as, e.g., LDPC) serving as an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Patrick Agostini , Zoran Utkovski , Slawomir Stanczak

Massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC) features a massive number of low-cost user equipments (UEs) with sparse activity. Tailor-made for these features, grant-free random access (GF-RA) serves as an efficient access solution for mMTC.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Zhaoji Zhang , Yuhao Chi , Qinghua Guo , Ying Li , Guanghui Song , Chongwen Huang

We consider unsourced random access with MIMO receiver - a crucial communication scenario for future 5G/6G wireless networks. We perform a projection-based decoder analysis and derive energy efficiency achievability bounds when channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Kirill Andreev , Daria Ustinova , Alexey Frolov

With the explosive growth of mobile data, the demand of high-speed railway (HSR) passengers for broadband wireless access services urgently needs the support of ultra-highspeed scenario broadband wireless communication. Millimeterwave…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yunhan Ma , Yong Niu , Zhu Han , Bo Ai , Kai Li , Zhangdui Zhong , Ning Wang

A high success rate of grant-free random access scheme is proposed to support massive access for machine-to-machine communications in massive multipleinput multiple-output systems. This scheme allows active user equipments (UEs) to transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Huimei Han , Lushun Fang , Weidang Lu , Wenchao Zhai , Ying Li , Jun Zhao

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

In this paper, coded slotted ALOHA (CSA) is introduced as a powerful random access scheme to the MAC frame. In CSA, the burst a generic user wishes to transmit in the MAC frame is first split into segments, and these segments are then…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Enrico Paolini , Gianluigi Liva , Marco Chiani

Unsourced random access is a novel communication paradigm designed for handling a large number of uncoordinated users that sporadically transmit very short messages. Under this model, coded compressed sensing (CCS) has emerged as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Jamison R. Ebert , Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Stefano Rini , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Krishna R. Narayanan

Identification and authentication are two basic functionalities of traditional random access protocols. In ALOHA-based random access, the packets usually include a field with a unique user address. However, when the number of users is…

This paper is a tutorial introduction to the field of unsourced multiple access (UMAC) protocols. We first provide a historical survey of the evolution of random access protocols, focusing specifically on the case in which uncoordinated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Gianluigi Liva , Yury Polyanskiy

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 detection of correlated information sources in the ubiquitous Code-Division Multiple-Access (CDMA) scheme. We propose a message-passing based scheme for detecting correlated sources directly, with no need for source coding.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-03-24 Hadar Efraim , Nadav Yacov , Ori Shental , Ido Kanter

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

The industrial Internet of things (IIoT) is revolutionizing industrial processes by facilitating massive machine-type communications among countless interconnected devices. To efficiently handle the resulting large-scale and sporadic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Enrico Testi , Giulia Torcolacci , Nicolò Decarli , Davide Dardari , Enrico Paolini