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This article investigates the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) enhanced unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-to-Everything (U2X) frameworks. A novel 3-Dimension framework for providing wireless services to randomly roaming NOMA receivers…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Tianwei Hou , Yuanwei Liu , Zhengyu Song , Xin Sun , Yue Chen

We derive an achievability bound to quantify the performance of a type-based unsourced multiple access system -- an information-theoretic model for grant-free multiple access with correlated messages. The bound extends available…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Deekshith Pathayappilly Krishnan , Kaan Okumus , Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi

5G New Radio paves the way for introducing novel multi-service radio resource management solutions tailored for enhanced Mobile Broadband and Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication service classes. Multi-Channel Access is a family of such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Nurul Huda Mahmood , Daniela Laselva , David Palacios , Mustafa Emara , Miltiades C. Filippou , Dong Min Kim , Isabel de-la-Bandera

This paper studies randomly spread code-division multiple access (CDMA) and multiuser detection in the large-system limit using the replica method developed in statistical physics. Arbitrary input distributions and flat fading are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-13 Dongning Guo , Sergio Verdu

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) is regarded as a promising technology in the sixth-generation communication. However, the antenna gain is always affected by the environment when unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are served as MEC platforms,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Can Cui , Ziye Jia , Chao Dong , Zhuang Ling , Jiahao You , Qihui Wu

Recently, grant-free random access schemes have received significant attention in the scientific community as a solution for extremely low-latency massive communications in new industrial Internet-of-things (IIoT) and digital twins…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-26 Davide Dardari , Marina Lotti , Nicolò Decarli , Gianni Pasolini

Consider a random access communication scenario over a channel whose operation is defined for any number of possible transmitters. As in the model recently introduced by Polyanskiy for the Multiple Access Channel (MAC) with a fixed, known…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-19 Recep Can Yavas , Victoria Kostina , Michelle Effros

This paper considers an uplink massive machine-type communication (mMTC) scenario, where a large number of user devices are connected to a base station (BS). A novel grant-free massive random access (MRA) strategy is proposed, considering…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jia-Cheng Jiang , Hui-Ming Wang

Classical multiuser information theory studies the fundamental limits of models with a fixed (often small) number of users as the coding blocklength goes to infinity. This work proposes a new paradigm, referred to as many-user information…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Xu Chen , Dongning Guo

The collaborative research project 6G-ANNA develops concepts for the 6G radio access network (RAN) architecture and technology components. Previous RAN generations have become inherently more complex and reach their limits in handling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Peter Schefczik , Umar Toseef , Paolo Baracca , Ralf Klotsche , Torsten Dudda , Mai-Anh Phan , Lorenzo Miretti , David Ginthoer , Bin Han

The design of highly scalable multiple access schemes is a main challenge in the evolution towards future massive machine-type communications, where reliability and latency constraints must be ensured to a large number of uncoordinated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Lorenzo Valentini , Alberto Faedi , Marco Chiani , Enrico Paolini

Due to the advancements in cellular technologies and the dense deployment of cellular infrastructure, integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the fifth-generation (5G) and beyond cellular networks is a promising solution to achieve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Qingqing Wu , Jie Xu , Yong Zeng , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Robert Schober , A. Lee Swindlehurst

This paper proposes a distributed multiple relay selection scheme to maximize the satisfaction experiences of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) communication networks. The multi-radio and multi-channel (MRMC) UAV communication system is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Dianxiong Liu , Yuhua Xu , Yitao Xu , Qihui Wu , Jianjun Jing , Yuanhui Zhang , Alagan Anpalagan

While fifth-generation (5G) communications are being rolled out worldwide, sixth-generation (6G) communications have attracted much attention from both the industry and the academia. Compared with 5G, 6G will have a wider frequency band,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Yang Zhao , Wenchao Zhai , Jun Zhao , Tinghao Zhang , Sumei Sun , Dusit Niyato , Kwok-Yan Lam

Grant-free random access (RA) with massive MIMO is a promising RA technique with low signaling overhead that provides significant benefits in increasing the channel reuse efficiency. Since user equipment (UE) detection and channel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Hao Jiang , Daiming Qu , Jie Ding , Tao Jiang

Designing efficient channel access schemes for wireless communications without any prior knowledge about the nature of environments has been a very challenging issue, especially when the channel states distribution of all spectrum resources…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Pan Zhou , Tao Jiang

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

The deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm-assisted communication networks has become an increasingly vital approach for remediating coverage limitations in infrastructure-deficient environments, with especially pressing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tianjiao Sun , Ningyan Guo , Haozhe Gu , Yanyan Peng , Zhiyong Feng

Due to the explosive growth in the number of wireless devices and diverse wireless services, such as virtual/augmented reality and Internet-of-Everything, next generation wireless networks face unprecedented challenges caused by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Yuanwei Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Xidong Mu , Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Ekram Hossain , Xuemin Shen

This paper considers a class of multi-channel random access algorithms, where contending devices may send multiple copies (replicas) of their messages to the central base station. We first develop a hypothetical algorithm that delivers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-15 Olga Galinina , Andrey Turlikov , Sergey Andreev , Yevgeni Koucheryavy