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Current wireless networks are designed to optimize spectral efficiency for human users, who typically require sustained connections for high-data-rate applications like file transfers and video streaming. However, these networks are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kirill Andreev , Pavel Rybin , Alexey Frolov

Unsourced random access (URA) is a recently proposed communication paradigm attuned to machine-driven data transfers. In the original URA formulation, all the active devices share the same number of bits per packet. The scenario where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Allen Hao , Stefano Rini , Jean-Francois Chamberland

This paper is a tutorial introduction to the field of unsourced multiple access (UMAC) protocols. We first provide a historical survey of the evolution of random access protocols, focusing specifically on the case in which uncoordinated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Gianluigi Liva , Yury Polyanskiy

This paper investigates the unsourced random access (URA) problem with a massive multiple-input multiple-output receiver that serves wireless devices in the near-field of radiation. We employ an uncoupled transmission protocol without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Xinyu Xie , Yongpeng Wu , Jianping An , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chengwen Xing , Wenjun Zhang

In this work, we discuss the problem of unsourced random access (URA) over a Gaussian multiple access channel (GMAC). To address the challenges posed by emerging massive machine-type connectivity, URA reframes multiple access as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Zhentian Zhang , Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Jian Dang , Kai-Kit Wong , Zaichen Zhang , Christos Masouros

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

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) or massive access is a critical scenario in the fifth generation (5G) and the future cellular network. With the surging density of devices from millions to billions, unique pilot allocation becomes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Zaichen Zhang , Liang Wu , Bingcheng Zhu , Lei Wang

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 study the problem of unsourced random access (URA) over Rayleigh block-fading channels with a receiver equipped with multiple antennas. We employ multiple stages of orthogonal pilots, each of which is randomly picked from a codebook. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Tolga M. Duman

We consider the problem of unsourced random access (U-RA), a grant-free uncoordinated form of random access, in a wireless channel with a massive MIMO base station equipped with a large number $M$ of antennas and a large number of wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Alexander Fengler , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

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

The core requirement of massive Machine-Type Communication (mMTC) is to support reliable and fast access for an enormous number of machine-type devices (MTDs). In many practical applications, the base station (BS) only concerns the list of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Jingze Che , Zhaoyang Zhang , Zhaohui Yang , Xiaoming Chen , Caijun Zhong , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

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

This paper investigates the unsourced random access (URA) problem for integrated sensing and commutations (ISAC). Recent results reveal that conventional multiple access strategies for ISAC such as treating interference as noise (TIN) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Zhentian Zhang , Kai-Kit Wong , Jian Dang , Zaichen Zhang , Chan-Byoung Chae

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

Unsourced random access (URA) is an increasingly popular communication paradigm attuned to machine driven data transfers in \textit{Internet-of-Things} (IoT) networks. In a typical URA setting, a small subset of active devices within a very…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Krishna R. Narayanan

This paper investigates the problem of joint massive devices separation and channel estimation for a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided unsourced random access (URA) scheme in the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Xiaodan Shao , Lei Cheng , Xiaoming Chen , Chongwen Huang , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

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 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

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
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