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Sparse Code Multiple Access (SCMA) and Blind Interference Alignment (BIA) are key enablers for multi-user communication, yet each suffers from distinct limitations: SCMA faces high complexity and limited multiplexing gain, while BIA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Jianjian Wu , Chi-Tsun Cheng , Qingfeng Zhou , Jianlin Liang , Jinke Wu

Being an effective non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique, sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is promising for future wireless communication. Compared with orthogonal techniques, SCMA enjoys higher overloading tolerance and lower…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Chuan Zhang , Chao Yang , Wei Xu , Shunqing Zhang , Zaichen Zhang , Xiaohu You

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

In this paper, we initiate the study of rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) for a mono-static integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where the dual-functional base station (BS) simultaneously communicates with multiple users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Kexin Chen , Yijie Mao , Longfei Yin , Chengcheng Xu , Yang Huang

Rate-Splitting multiple access (RSMA) has emerged as a key enabler in improving the performance of the beyond fifth-generation (5G) cellular networks. The existing literature has typically considered the sum rate of the users to evaluate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-23 Garima Chopra , Akhileswar Chowdary , Abhinav Kumar , Marwa Chafii

Sparse Code Multiple Access (SCMA) is an enabling code-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)scheme for massive connectivity and ultra low-latency in future machine-type communication networks. As an evolved variant of code division…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Saumya Chaturvedi , Zilong Liu , Vivek Ashok Bohara , Anand Srivastava , Pei Xiao

The rapid development of IoT technology has led to a shortage of spectrum resources and energy, giving rise to simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) technology. However, traditional multiple input multiple output…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Yixuan Guo , Mingliang Xiong , Wen Fang , Qingwei Jiang , Qingwen Liu , Gang Yan

This article considers the massive MIMO unsourced random access problem on a quasi-static Rayleigh fading channel. Given a fixed message length and a prescribed number of channel uses, the objective is to construct a coding scheme that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Michail Gkagkos , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Costas N. Georghiades

Sparse block interleaver division multiple access (SB-IDMA) is a recently introduced unsourced multiple access protocol that aims to improve the performance of the grant-free two-step random access transmission protocol of the 3GPP 5G New…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Jean-Francois Chamberland , Gianluigi Liva , Krishna Narayanan

A framework for the analysis of synchronous grant-free massive multiple access schemes based on the irregular repetition slotted ALOHA (IRSA) protocol and operating over the Gaussian multiple access channel is presented. IRSA-based schemes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Velio Tralli , Enrico Paolini

Future 5G communication systems require more demanding performances than the existing cellular communication systems, e.g., 10 to 100 Mbps user data rate and much larger cellular spectrum efficiency. The well-used multiple access methods…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 Shin-Yuan Wang , Wei-Han Hsiao , Kang-Lun Chiu , Chia-Chi Huang

Reconfigurable intelligent surface-empowered communication (RIS) and sparse code multiple access (SCMA) are promising candidates for future generations of wireless networks. The former enhances the transmission environments, whereas the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Ertugrul Basar

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 2021-09-22 Alexander Fengler , Osman Musa , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

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

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

On a multi-antenna broadcast channel, simultaneous transmission to multiple users by joint beamforming and scheduling is capable of achieving high throughput, which grows double logarithmically with the number of users. The sum rate for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-08-27 Kaibin Huang , Robert W. Heath, , Jeffrey G. Andrews

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

The performance of modern wireless communication systems is typically limited by interference. The impact of interference can be even more severe in ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC) use cases. A powerful tool for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Mohammad Soleymani , Ignacio Santamaria , Eduard Jorswieck , Marco Di Renzo , Robert Schober , Lajos Hanzo

Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is one of the most promising methods among all the non-orthogonal multiple access techniques in the future 5G communication. Compared with some other non-orthogonal multiple access techniques such as low…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-28 Fan Wei , Wen Chen

As 6G networks demand massive connectivity and stronger interference control, rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) is attractive because it superposes a common stream and user-private streams and remains effective under imperfect CSIT and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Jinyuan Liu , Yong Liang Guan , Tuo Wu , Kai-Kit Wong , Bruno Clerckx