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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

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 the problem of type estimation over unsourced multiple access fading channels in distributed multiple-input multiple-output (D-MIMO) systems. Unlike classical unsourced multiple access, type-based unsourced multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kaan Okumus , Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi , Erik G. Ström

Grant-free access schemes are candidates to support future massive multiple access applications owing to their capability to reduce control signaling and latency. As a promising class of grant-free schemes, coded random access schemes can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Lorenzo Valentini , Marco Chiani , Enrico Paolini

In this paper we focus on a feedback mechanism for unsourced random access (URA) communications. We propose an algorithm to construct feedback packets broadcasted to the users by the base station (BS) as well as the feedback packet format…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Murwan Bashir , Ehsan Nassaji , Dmitri Truhachev , Alireza Bayesteh , Monirosharieh Vameghestahbanati

We study the problem of simulating a two-user multiple-access channel (MAC) over a multiple access network of noiseless links. Two encoders observe independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) copies of a source random variable each,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Gowtham R. Kurri , Viswanathan Ramachandran , Sibi Raj B. Pillai , Vinod M. Prabhakaran

Due to the short and bursty incoming messages, channel access activities in a wireless random access system are often fractional. The lack of frequent data support consequently makes it difficult for the receiver to estimate and track the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-10-11 Zheng Wang , Jie Luo

We study medium access control layer random access under the assumption that the receiver can perform successive interference cancellation, without feedback. During recent years, a number of protocols with impressive error performance have…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Christopher Boyd , Roope Vehkalahti , Olav Tirkkonen , Antti Laaksonen

The unsourced MAC model was originally introduced to study the communication scenario in which a number of devices with low-complexity and low-energy wish to upload their respective messages to a base station. In the original problem…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Allen Hao , Stefano Rini , Vamsi Amalladinne , Asit Kumar Pradhan , Jean-Francois Chamberland

WLAN is one of the most successful applications of wireless communications in daily life because of low cost and ease of deployment. The enabling technique for this success is the use of random access schemes for the wireless channel.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-11-03 Georg Böcherer , Alexandre de Baynast

We analyze the performance of enhanced spread spectrum Aloha (E-SSA) in the framework of unsourced multiple access (UMAC). The asynchronous, unframed transmission of E-SSA is modified to enable a direct comparison with framed UMAC schemes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Riccardo Schiavone , Gianluigi Liva , Roberto Garello

Due to the dominance of the downlink traffic in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), a large number of previous research efforts have been put to enhance the transmission from the Access Point (AP) to stations (STAs). The downlink…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-11-21 Ruizhi Liao , Boris Bellalta , Trang Cao Minh , Jaume Barcelo , Miquel Oliver

A joint sparse-regression-code (SPARC) and low-density-parity-check (LDPC) coding scheme for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) massive unsourced random access (URA) is proposed in this paper. Different from the state-of-the-art…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Tianya Li , Yongpeng Wu , Mengfan Zheng , Dongming Wang , Wenjun Zhang

Feasibility of using unlicensed spectrum for ultra reliable low latency communications (URLLC) is still a question for beyond 5G wireless networks. Low latency access to the channel and efficiently sharing spectrum among the multiple users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Irshad A. Meer , Woong-Hee Lee , Mustafa Ozger , Cicek Cavdar , Ki Won Sung

We present a novel access protocol for crowd scenarios in massive MIMO (Multiple-input multiple-output) systems. Crowd scenarios are characterized by a large number of users with intermittent access behavior, whereby orthogonal scheduling…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Jesper H. Sørensen , Elisabeth de Carvalho , Čedomir Stefanović , Petar Popovski

We consider the compound memoryless quantum multiple-access channel (QMAC) with two sending terminals. In this model, the transmission is governed by the memoryless extensions of a completely positive and trace preserving map which can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-25 Holger Boche , Gisbert Janßen , Sajad Saeedinaeeni

This article introduces a novel paradigm for the unsourced multiple-access communication problem. This divide-and-conquer approach leverages recent advances in compressive sensing and forward error correction to produce a computationally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Avinash Vem , Dileep Kumar Soma , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland

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

Unsourced random access (URA) has emerged as a candidate paradigm for massive machine-type communication (MTC) in next-generation wireless networks. While many excellent uplink schemes have been developed for URA, these schemes do not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Jamison R. Ebert , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland

Random network coding (RNC) is an efficient coding scheme to improve the performance of the broadband networks, especially for multimedia applications which are popular in 5G network. However, it is a challenging work to transmit the real…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Xianzhen Guo , Bin Li , Jiayi Cong , Ruonan Zhang