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In this work we treat the unsourced random access problem on a Rayleigh block-fading AWGN channel with multiple receive antennas. Specifically, we consider the slowly fading scenario where the coherence block-length is large compared to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Alexander Fengler , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) demand robust solutions to support extensive connectivity efficiently. Unsourced random access (URA) has emerged as a promising approach, delivering high spectral and energy efficiency. Among URA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Liandong Hu , Jian Dang , Zaichen Zhang

We investigate the unsourced random access scheme assuming that the base station is equipped with multiple antennas, and propose a high-performing solution utilizing on-off-division multiple access. We assume that each user spreads its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Mert Ozates , Mohammad Kazemi , Tolga M. Duman

Wireless communications at the chip scale emerge as a interesting complement to traditional wire-based approaches thanks to their low latency, inherent broadcast nature, and capacity to bypass pin constraints. However, as current trends…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Bernat Ollé , Pau Talarn , Albert Cabellos-Aparicio , Filip Lemic , Eduard Alarcón , Sergi Abadal

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

In this paper, we investigate an unsourced random access scheme for massive machine-type communications (mMTC) in the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks with sporadic data traffic. Firstly, we establish a general framework for massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Feiyan Tian , Xiaoming Chen , Lei Liu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Unsourced random-access (U-RA) is a type of grant-free random access with a virtually unlimited number of users, of which only a certain number $K_a$ are active on the same time slot. Users employ exactly the same codebook, and the task of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Alexander Fengler , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

Unsourced random access (URA) is a particular form of grant-free uncoordinated random access wherein the users' identities are not associated to specific waveforms at the physical layer. Tensor-based modulation (TBM) has been recently…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Alberto Rech , Alexis Decurninge , Luis G. Ordóñez

Unsourced random-access (U-RA) is a type of grant-free random access with a virtually unlimited number of users, of which only a certain number $K_a$ are active on the same time slot. Users employ exactly the same codebook, and the task of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Alexander Fengler , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

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 communication is one of key scenarios of 6G where two magnitude higher connection density would be required to serve diverse services. As a promising direction, unsourced multiple access has been proved to outperform significantly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yifei Yuan , Yuhong Huang , Chunlin Yan , Sen Wang , Shuai Ma , Xiaodong Shen

We consider the unsourced random access problem with multiple receivers and propose a cell-free type solution for that. In our proposed scheme, the active users transmit their signals to the access points (APs) distributed in a geographical…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Mert Ozates , Mohammad Kazemi , Eduard Jorswieck , Deniz Gunduz

This article presents a novel transmission scheme for the unsourced, uncoordinated Gaussian multiple access problem. The proposed scheme leverages notions from single-user coding, random spreading, minimum-mean squared error (MMSE)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Asit Kumar Pradhan , Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland

Unsourced random access (URA) is a recently proposed multiple access paradigm tailored to the uplink channel of machine-type communication networks. By exploiting a strong connection between URA and compressed sensing, the massive multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Jamison R. Ebert , Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Stefano Rini , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Krishna R. Narayanan

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

Over the past decade we have witnessed a rapid growth and development in wireless communication systems, to the point that conventional spectrum allocation policies may not be able to fulfill them all. Federal Communications Commission…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-02-11 Armin Banaei , Costas N. Georghiades

This work considers the problem of integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) with a massive number of unsourced and uncoordinated users. In the proposed model, known as the unsourced ISAC system (UNISAC), all active communication and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor

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 considers an asynchronous $\textsf{K}_\text{a}$-active-user unsourced multiple access channel (AUMAC) with the worst-case asynchronicity. The transmitted messages must be decoded within $n$ channel uses, while some codewords are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Jyun-Sian Wu , Pin-Hsun Lin , Marcel A. Mross , Eduard A. Jorswieck

This paper explores the fundamental limits of unsourced random access (URA) with a random and unknown number ${\rm{K}}_a$ of active users in MIMO quasi-static Rayleigh fading channels. First, we derive an upper bound on the probability of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Junyuan Gao , Yongpeng Wu , Giuseppe Caire , Wei Yang , Wenjun Zhang