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The massiveness of devices in crowded Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications brings new challenges to existing random-access (RA) schemes, such as heavy signaling overhead and severe access collisions. In order to reduce the signaling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Zhaoji Zhang , Ying Li , Lei Liu , Wei Hou

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 proliferating number of devices with short payloads as well as low power budget has already driven researchers away from classical grant-based access schemes that are notorious for their large signalling overhead as well as…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Rana Abbas , Tao Huang , Basit Shahab , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Yonghui Li , Branka Vucetic

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

This paper designs a cooperative activity detection framework for massive grant-free random access in the sixth-generation (6G) cell-free wireless networks based on the covariance of the received signals at the access points (APs). In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Xiaodan Shao , Xiaoming Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

A key challenge of massive MTC (mMTC), is the joint detection of device activity and decoding of data. The sparse characteristics of mMTC makes compressed sensing (CS) approaches a promising solution to the device detection problem.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-27 Kamil Senel , Erik G. Larsson

We consider the problem of unsourced random access (U-RA), a grant-free uncoordinated form of random access, in a wireless channel with a massive MIMO base station equipped with a large number $M$ of antennas and a large number of wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Alexander Fengler , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

In this paper, we study the problem of user activity detection and large-scale fading coefficient estimation in a random access wireless uplink with a massive MIMO base station with a large number $M$ of antennas and a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Alexander Fengler , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) are fundamental to the Internet of Things (IoT) framework in future wireless networks, involving the connection of a vast number of devices with sporadic transmission patterns. Traditional device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Xinjue Wang , Esa Ollila , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

Grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is considered as one of the supporting technology for massive connectivity for future networks. In the grant-free NOMA systems with a massive number of users, user activity detection is of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-08 Yixuan Zou , Zhijin Qin , Yuanwei Liu

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

Extra-large massive multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems is a new concept, where spatial non-stationarities allow activate a high number of user equipments (UEs). This paper focuses on a grant-based random access (RA) approach…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Otávio Seidi Nishimura , José Carlos Marinello Filho , Taufik Abrão

Resource allocation and multiple access schemes are instrumental for the success of communication networks, which facilitate seamless wireless connectivity among a growing population of uncoordinated and non-synchronized users. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Sajad Daei , Saeed Razavikia , Marios Kountouris , Mikael Skoglund , Gabor Fodor , Carlo Fischione

This paper proposes a grant-free massive access scheme based on the millimeter wave (mmWave) extra-large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) to support massive Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices with low latency, high data rate,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Li Qiao , Anwen Liao , Zhuoran Li , Hua Wang , Zhen Gao , Xiang Gao , Yu Su , Pei Xiao , Li You , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

In this work, based on the hybrid generalized approximate message passing (HyGAMP) algorithm, we propose the message-scheduling GAMP (MSGAMP) algorithm in order to address the problem of joint active device detection and channel estimation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 R. B. Di Renna , R. C. de Lamare

This paper investigates the problem of activity detection and channel estimation in cooperative multi-cell massive access systems with temporally correlated activity, where all access points (APs) are connected to a central unit via…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Weifeng Zhu , Meixia Tao , Xiaojun Yuan , Fan Xu , Yunfeng Guan

Massive grant-free transmission and cell-free wireless communication systems have emerged as pivotal enablers for massive machine-type communication. This paper proposes a deep-unfolding-based joint activity and data detection (DU-JAD)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Gangle Sun , Wenjin Wang , Wei Xu , Christoph Studer

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

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

Grant-free cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (GF-CF-MaMIMO) systems are anticipated to be a key enabling technology for next-generation Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks, as they support massive connectivity without explicit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Christian Forsch , Laura Cottatellucci