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We investigate the activity detection and channel estimation issues for cell-free Internet of Things (IoT) networks with massive random access. In each time slot, only partial devices are active and communicate with neighboring access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Xinhua Wang , Alexei Ashikhmin , Zhicheng Dong , Chao Zhai

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) are poised to provide ubiquitous connectivity for billions of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. However, the required low-latency massive access necessitates a paradigm shift in the design of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Yikun Mei , Zhen Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Wei Chen , Jun Zhang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Marco Di Renzo

With recent advances on the dense low-earth orbit (LEO) constellation, LEO satellite network has become one promising solution to providing global coverage for Internet-of-Things (IoT) services. Confronted with the sporadic transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Zhaoji Zhang , Ying Li , Chongwen Huang , Qinghua Guo , Lei Liu , Chau Yuen , Yong Liang Guan

This paper investigates multi-target detection in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system within a cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) framework. We adopt a user-centric approach for communication user equipments (UEs) and a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-24 Zinat Behdad , Ozlem Tugfe Demir , Ki Won Sung , Cicek Cavdar

This paper studies the user activity detection and channel estimation problem in a temporally-correlated massive access system where a very large number of users communicate with a base station sporadically and each user once activated can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Weifeng Zhu , Meixia Tao , Xiaojun Yuan , Yunfeng Guan

Device activity detection is one main challenge in grant-free random access, which is recently proposed to support massive access for massive machine-type communications (mMTC). Existing solutions fail to consider interference generated by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Dongdong Jiang , Ying Cui

This paper proposes a joint channel and data estimation (JCDE) algorithm for uplink multiuser extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems. The initial channel estimation is formulated as a sparse reconstruction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Kabuto Arai , Koji Ishibashi , Hiroki Iimori , Paulo Valente Klaine , Szabolcs Malomsoky

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

Cell-free massive MIMO (CF-mMIMO) networks have recently emerged as a promising solution to tackle the challenges arising from next-generation massive machine-type communications. In this paper, a fully grant-free deep learning (DL)-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Muhammad Usman Khan , Enrico Testi , Marco Chiani , Enrico Paolini

The factor graph (FG) based iterative detection is considered an effective and practical method for multiple-input and multiple-out (MIMO), particularly massive MIMO (m-MIMO) systems. However, the convergence analysis for the FG-based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Huan Li , Jingxuan Huang , Zesong Fei

This work proposes a distributed estimation and control approach in which a team of aerial agents equipped with radio jamming devices collaborate in order to intercept and concurrently track-and-jam a malicious target, while at the same…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Georgios Ellinas

Millimeter-wave/Terahertz (mmW/THz) communications have shown great potential for wideband massive access in next-generation cellular internet of things (IoT) networks. To decrease the length of pilot sequences and the computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Xiaodan Shao , Xiaoming Chen , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

Channel state information (CSI) is important to reap the full benefits of millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The traditional channel estimation methods using pilot frames (PF) lead to excessive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-04 Shusen Cai , Li Chen , Yunfei Chen , Huarui Yin , Weidong Wang

The spatial diversity and multiplexing advantages of massive multi-input-multi-output (mMIMO) can significantly improve the capacity of massive non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in machine type communications. However, state-of-the-art…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-17 Yueqing Wang , Yikun Mei , Zhen Gao , Ziwei Wan , Boyu Ning , De Mi , Sami Muhaidat

To support the newly introduced multimedia services with ultra-low latency and extensive computation requirements, resource-constrained end user devices should utilize the ubiquitous computing resources available at network edge for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Fitsum Debebe Tilahun , Ameha Tsegaye Abebe , Chung G. Kang

Massive random access is an important technology for achieving ultra-massive connectivity in next-generation wireless communication systems. It aims to address key challenges during the initial access phase, including active user detection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Keke Ying , Zhen Gao , Sheng Chen , Tony Q. S. Quek , H. Vincent Poor

This paper studies a joint communication and sensing (JCAS) system with downlink communication and multi-static sensing for single-target detection in a cloud radio access network architecture. A centralized operation of cell-free massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Zinat Behdad , Özlem Tuğfe Demir , Ki Won Sung , Emil Björnson , Cicek Cavdar

We propose a factor-graph-based approach to joint channel-estimation-and-decoding (JCED) of bit- interleaved coded orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (BICM-OFDM). In contrast to existing designs, ours is capable of exploiting not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-27 Philip Schniter

The use of low precision (e.g., 1-3 bits) analog-to-digital convenors (ADCs) in very large multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems is a technique to reduce cost and power consumption. In this context, nevertheless, it has been shown…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-23 Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin , Kai-Kit Wong , Chang-Jen Wang , Gang Wu

This work considers uplink asynchronous massive machine-type communications, where a large number of low-power and low-cost devices asynchronously transmit short packets to an access point equipped with multiple receive antennas. If…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Z. Shao , X. Yuan , R. de Lamare