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We consider a classical multiple access system with a single transmission channel, finite number of users (users), and randomized transmission protocol (ALOHA). We assume that every user sends messages to the base station with various…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Dmitriy Kim , Georgi Georgiev , Natalya Markovskaya

Optical wireless communication (OWC) has the potential to provide high communication speeds that support the massive use of the Internet that is expected in the near future. In OWC, optical access points (APs) are deployed on the celling to…

Co-channel interference poses a challenge in any wireless communication network where the time-frequency resources are reused over different geographical areas. The interference is particularly diverse in cell-free massive multiple-input…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Mahmoud Zaher , Emil Björnson , Marina Petrova

We study a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) multiple access channel (MAC) from several multi-antenna transmitters to a multi-antenna receiver. The fading channels between the transmitters and the receiver are modeled by random…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-04 Jakob Hoydis , Romain Couillet , Merouane Debbah

Cooperative communications have emerged as a significant concept to improve reliability and throughput in wireless systems. On the other hand, WLANs based on random access mechanism have become popular due to ease of deployment and low…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-01-23 Georg Böcherer , Alexandre de Baynast

Randomized network coding (RNC) greatly reduces the complexity of implementing network coding in large-scale, heterogeneous networks. This paper examines two tradeoffs in applying RNC: The first studies how the performance of RNC varies…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-02-18 Yingda Chen , Shalinee Kishore

This paper studies the random-coding exponent of joint source-channel coding for the multiple-access channel with correlated sources. For each user, by defining a threshold, the messages of each source are partitioned into two classes. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Arezou Rezazadeh , Josep Font-Segura , Alfonso Martinez , Albert Guillén i Fàbregas

We derive finite-blocklength bounds on the minimum achievable energy per bit over a Gaussian unsourced multiple access (UMA) channel in the presence of heterogeneous path-loss conditions. We consider a setting in which the path loss is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Deekshith Pathayappilly Krishnan , Kaan Okumus , Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi

Distributed medium access control (MAC) protocols are essential for the proliferation of low cost, decentralized wireless local area networks (WLANs). Most MAC protocols are designed with the presumption that nodes comply with prescribed…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Khoa Tran Phan , Jaeok Park , Mihaela van der Schaar

Unsourced random access (URA) has emerged as a pragmatic framework for next-generation distributed sensor networks. Within URA, concatenated coding structures are often employed to ensure that the central base station can accurately recover…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Jamison R. Ebert , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Krishna R. Narayanan

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

Distributed medium access control (MAC) protocols are proposed for wireless networks assuming that one-hop peers can periodically exchange a small amount of state information. Each station maintains a state and makes state transitions and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ka Hung Hui , Dongning Guo , Randall A. Berry

Existing wireless communication systems have been mainly designed to provide substantial gain in terms of data rates. However, 5G and Beyond will depart from this scheme, with the objective not only to provide services with higher data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Mostafa Mohammadkarimi , Octavia A. Dobre , Moe Z. Win

Unsourced multiple access abstracts grantless simultaneous communication of a large number of devices (messages) each of which transmits (is transmitted) infrequently. It provides a model for machine-to-machine communication in the Internet…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-13 Robert Calderbank , Andrew Thompson

The envisioned wireless networks of the future entail the provisioning of massive numbers of connections, heterogeneous data traffic, ultra-high spectral efficiency, and low latency services. This vision is spurring research activities…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Xuelin Cao , Bo Yang , Chongwen Huang , George C. Alexandropoulos , Chau Yuen , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor , Lajos Hanzo

This paper studies the problem of broadcasting layered video streams over heterogeneous single-hop wireless networks using feedback-free random linear network coding (RLNC). We combine RLNC with unequal error protection (UEP) and our main…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Mohammad Esmaeilzadeh , Parastoo Sadeghi , Neda Aboutorab

5G wireless networks are expected to support new services with stringent requirements on data rates, latency and reliability. One novel feature is the ability to serve a dense crowd of devices, calling for radically new ways of accessing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-20 Elisabeth de Carvalho , Emil Björnson , Jesper H. Sørensen , Petar Popovski , Erik G. Larsson

Cell-Free Massive MIMO systems aim to expand the coverage area of wireless networks by replacing a single high-performance Access Point (AP) with multiple small, distributed APs connected to a Central Processing Unit (CPU) through a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Michail Gkagkos , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Costas N. Georghiades , Krishna R. Narayanan

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) represents a key paradigm for future wireless networks. However, existing approaches require waveform modifications, dedicated pilots, or overhead that complicates standards integration. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Wentao Yu , Khaled B. Letaief , Lizhong Zheng

This paper addresses a fundamental limitation of previous random access protocols, their lack of latency performance guarantees. We consider $K$ IoT transmitters competing for uplink resources and we design a fully distributed protocol for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Apostolos Destounis , Dimitrios Tsilimantos , Mérouane Debbah , Georgios S. Paschos