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In this paper, we investigate unsourced random access for massive machine-type communications (mMTC) in the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. Firstly, we establish a high-efficiency uncoupled framework for massive unsourced random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Feiyan Tian , Xiaoming Chen , Yong Liang Guan , Chau Yuen

This work introduces security for unsourced random access (URA) by employing physical layer security techniques. To achieve confidentiality, the proposed system opportunistically exploits intrinsic features of feedback-aided URA without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, a novel uncoordinated random access (URA) protocol is presented to address the pressing demand for massive connectivity with low access latency in future massive machine type communication (mMTC) scenarios. The proposed URA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-28 Pengyu Gao , Qu Luo , Jing Zhu , Gaojie Chen , Pei Xiao , Chuan Heng Foh

We investigate fully asynchronous unsourced random access (URA), and propose a high-performing scheme that employs on-off division multiple access (ODMA). In this scheme, active users distribute their data over the transmit block based on a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Mert Ozates , Mohammad Kazemi , Gianluigi Liva , Deniz Gündüz

We consider an unsourced random access (URA) system enhanced with a feedback mechanism that serves both communication and sensing tasks. While traditional URA systems do not incorporate feedback, we propose a novel feedback signal design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Mohammad Kazemi , Rafael F. Schaefer

We introduce a modulation for unsourced massive random access whereby the transmitted symbols are rank-1 tensors constructed from Grassmannian sub-constellations. The use of a low-rank tensor structure, together with tensor decomposition in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Alexis Decurninge , Ingmar Land , Maxime Guillaud

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

This paper investigates the unsourced random access (URA) scheme to accommodate numerous machine-type users communicating to a base station equipped with multiple antennas. Existing works adopt a slotted transmission strategy to reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Xinyu Xie , Yongpeng Wu , Jianping An , Junyuan Gao , Wenjun Zhang , Chengwen Xing , Kai-Kit Wong , Chengshan Xiao

We consider unsourced random access (uRA) in user-centric cell-free (CF) wireless networks, where random access users send codewords from a common codebook during specifically dedicated random access channel (RACH) slots. The system is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Eleni Gkiouzepi , Burak Çakmak , Manfred Opper , Giuseppe Caire

With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), low earth orbit (LEO) satellite IoT is expected to provide low power, massive connectivity and wide coverage IoT applications. In this context, this paper provides a massive grant-free…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Ming Ying , Xiaoming Chen , Xiaodan Shao

Tensor-based modulation (TBM) has been proposed in the context of unsourced random access for massive uplink communication. In this modulation, transmitters encode data as rank-1 tensors, with factors from a discrete vector constellation.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Alexis Decurninge , Ingmar Land , Maxime Guillaud

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 put forward a new algorithmic solution to the massive unsourced random access (URA) problem, by leveraging the rich spatial dimensionality offered by large-scale antenna arrays. This paper makes an observation that spatial signature is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Volodymyr Shyianov , Faouzi Bellili , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

Unsourced random access (URA) has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling massive connectivity in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. However, since URA transmissions do not contain device identifiers, the receiver may not associate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Wenbo Fan , Zeping Sui , Yuhei Takahashi , Jun Cheng , Zilong Liu , Pingzhi Fan

We propose a novel generalized framework for grant-free random-access (GFRA) in cell-free massive multiple input multiple-output systems where multiple geographically separated access points (APs) or base stations (BSs) aim to detect…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-20 Sai Subramanyam Thoota , Erik G. Larsson

This report summarizes some considerations on possible evolutions of grant-free random access in the next generation of the 3GPP wireless cellular standard. The analysis is carried out by mapping the problem to the recently-introduced…

This paper investigates the massive random access for a huge amount of user devices served by a base station (BS) equipped with a massive number of antennas. We consider a grant-free unsourced random access (U-RA) scheme where all users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Xinyu Xie , Yongpeng Wu , Junyuan Gao , Wenjun Zhang

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

In the upcoming Internet-of-Things (IoT) era, the communication is often featured by massive connection, sporadic transmission, and small-sized data packets, which poses new requirements on the delay expectation and resource allocation…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Zhaoji Zhang , Ying Li , Chongwen Huang , Qinghua Guo , Chau Yuen , Yong Liang Guan

This article introduces a novel communication paradigm for the unsourced, uncoordinated Gaussian multiple access problem. The major components of the envisioned framework are as follows. The encoded bits of every message are partitioned…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Asit Pradhan , Vamsi Amalladinne , Avinash Vem , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland