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ALOHA-type protocols became a popular solution for distributed and uncoordinated multiple random access in wireless networks. However, such distributed operation of the Medium Access Control (MAC) layer leads to sub-optimal utilization of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-08 G. Interdonato , S. Pfletschinger , F. Vazquez-Gallego , J. Alonso-Zarate , G. Araniti

We analyze the performance of coded slotted ALOHA systems for a scenario where users have different error protection requirements and correspondingly can be divided into user classes. The main goal is to design the system so that the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Mikhail Ivanov , Fredrik Brannstrom , Alexandre Graell i Amat , Gianluigi Liva

Wireless random access protocols are attracting a revived research interest as a simple yet effective solution for machine-type communications. In the quest to improve reliability and spectral efficiency of such schemes, the use of multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Andrea Munari , Federico Clazzer , Gianluigi Liva , Michael Heindlmaier

Ambient Internet of Things (A-IoT) devices, as a critical enabler of future green IoT networks, have attracted broad interest from both industry and academia due to their ability to operate without batteries and with low maintenance costs.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Xinlei Liu , Andrey Belogaev , Jeroen Famaey

We propose a novel distributed random access scheme for wireless networks based on slotted ALOHA, motivated by the analogies between successive interference cancellation and iterative belief-propagation decoding on erasure channels. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Cedomir Stefanovic , Petar Popovski , Dejan Vukobratovic

In this paper, we propose a novel decentralized framework for optimizing the transmission strategy of Irregular Repetition Slotted ALOHA (IRSA) protocol in sensor networks. We consider a hierarchical communication framework that ensures…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Eleni Nisioti , Nikolaos Thomos

We propose a collision recovery scheme for symbol-synchronous slotted ALOHA (SA) based on physical layer network coding over extended Galois Fields. Information is extracted from colliding bursts allowing to achieve higher maximum…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Giuseppe Cocco , Nader Alagha , Christian Ibars , Stefano Cioni

We investigate the age of information (AoI) in a scenario where energy-harvesting devices send status updates to a gateway following the slotted ALOHA protocol and receive no feedback. We let the devices adjust the transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi , Andrea Munari , Francisco Lázaro , Alexandre Graell i Amat

LoRa (Long-Range) is an LPWAN (low-power wide-area network) protocol that is part of the IoT family that focusses on long-range communication of up to 14km, albeit with delay-inherent transmissions. Three IoT-based time synchronisation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Timothy Jones , Khondokar Fida Hasan

Although LoRa is predominantly employed with the single-hop LoRaWAN protocol, recent advancements have extended its application to multi-hop mesh topologies. Designing efficient routing for LoRa mesh networks remains challenging due to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Nalith Udugampola , Xiaoyu Ai , Binghao Li , Henry Gong , Aruna Seneviratne

In wireless communication networks, when the workload increases, sources become more aggressive at the equilibrium in the game setting in comparison with the team problem by using slotted Aloha mechanism. Consequently, more packets are in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-06 Zaaloul Abdellah , Haqiq Abdelkrim

Accurate time synchronization is essential for Internet of Things (IoT) systems, where multiple distributed nodes must share a common time base for coordinated sensing and data fusion. However, conventional synchronization approaches suffer…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ziyao Zhou , Tiancheng Cao , Chen Shen , Jiaqi Zhang , Yuting Liu , Hen-Wei Huang

In this paper, a random access scheme is introduced which relies on the combination of packet erasure correcting codes and successive interference cancellation (SIC). The scheme is named coded slotted ALOHA. A bipartite graph representation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Enrico Paolini , Gianluigi Liva , Marco Chiani

The random access scheme is a fundamental scenario in which users transmit through a shared channel and cannot coordinate each other. In recent years, successive interference cancellation (SIC) was introduced into the random access scheme.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-16 Tomokazu Emoto , Takayuki Nozaki

We consider framed slotted Aloha where $m$ base stations cooperate to decode messages from $n$ users. Users and base stations are placed uniformly at random over an area. At each frame, each user sends multiple replicas of its packet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-01-28 Dusan Jakovetic , Dragana Bajovic , Dejan Vukobratovic , Vladimir Crnojevic

We investigate an internet-of-things system where energy-harvesting devices send status updates to a common receiver using the irregular repetition slotted ALOHA (IRSA) protocol. Energy shortages in these devices may lead to transmission…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Diep N. Nguyen , Thai-Mai Dinh Thi

This paper has been withdrawn by arXiv. arXiv admin note: author list truncated due to disputed authorship and content. This submission repeats large portions of text from this http URL by other authors. Duty cycle mode in WSN improves…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-04-30 Rajeev K. Shakya

This paper concerns with the synchronization of infrastructure impoverished sensor networks under harsh conditions. It suggests three novel asynchronous, decentralized, energyefficient time synchronization protocols. The protocols require…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-11-06 Ramadan Abdul-Rashid , Ali Al-Shaikhi , Ahmad Masoud

Recently, random access protocols have acquired a new wave of interest, not only from the satellite communication community, but also from researchers active in fields like Internet of Things and machine-to-machine. Asynchronous (slot- and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-09 Federico Clazzer , Christian Kissling , Mario Marchese

Internet of Things applications have gained widespread recognition for their efficacy in typical scenarios, such as smart cities and smart healthcare. Nonetheless, there exist numerous unconventional situations where IoT technologies have…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Luca Scalambrin , Andrea Zanella , Xavier Vilajosana