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Compressed sensing multi-user detection (CS-MUD) algorithms play a key role in optimizing grant-free (GF) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) for massive machine-type communications (mMTC). However, current CS-MUD algorithms cannot be…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Leatile Marata , Onel Luis Alcaraz López , Andreas Hauptmann , Hamza Djelouat , Hirley Alves

In this paper, we investigate a joint device activity detection (DAD), channel estimation (CE), and data decoding (DD) algorithm for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) massive unsourced random access (URA). Different from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Tianya Li , Yongpeng Wu , Mengfan Zheng , Wenjun Zhang , Chengwen Xing , Jianping An , Xiang-Gen Xia , Chengshan Xiao

Grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access has been regarded as a viable approach to accommodate access for a massive number of machine-type devices with small data packets. The sporadic activation of the devices creates a multiuser setup…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-15 Yanna Bai , Wei Chen , Bo Ai , Petar Popovski

We study the Gaussian multiple access channel with random user activity, in the regime where the number of users is proportional to the code length. The receiver may know some statistics about the number of active users, but does not know…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xiaoqi Liu , Pablo Pascual Cobo , Ramji Venkataramanan

The Internet of Things paradigm heavily relies on a network of a massive number of machine-type devices (MTDs) that monitor various phenomena. Consequently, MTDs are randomly activated at different times whenever a change occurs. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Leatile Marata , Esa Ollila , Hirley Alves

Random access is a multiple access communication protocol where the users simultaneously communicate with a base station (BS) in an uncoordinated fashion. In this work, we consider the problem of multiuser detection in a random access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-07-15 Md Mashud Hyder

Massive connectivity for extra large-scale multi-input multi-output (XL-MIMO) systems is a challenging issue due to the near-field access channels and the prohibitive cost. In this paper, we propose an uplink grant-free massive access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Yikun Mei , Zhen Gao , De Mi , Mingyu Zhou , Dezhi Zheng , Michail Matthaiou , Pei Xiao , Robert Schober

In 5G and future generation wireless systems, massive IoT networks with bursty traffic are expected to co-exist with cellular systems to serve several latency-critical applications. Thus, it is important for the access points to identify…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-05 Jyotish Robin , Elza Erkip

Massive MIMO systems, where base stations are equipped with hundreds of antennas, are an attractive way to handle the rapid growth of data traffic. As the number of user equipments (UEs) increases, the initial access and handover in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-20 Luca Sanguinetti , Antonio A. D'Amico , Michele Morelli , Merouane Debbah

Many applications in cellular systems and sensor networks involve a random subset of a large number of users asynchronously reporting activity to a base station. This paper examines the problem of multiuser detection (MUD) in random access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Lorne Applebaum , Waheed U. Bajwa , Marco F. Duarte , Robert Calderbank

We propose a computationally efficient algorithm for the device activity detection problem in the multi-cell massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system, where the active devices transmit their signature sequences to multiple BSs in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Ziyue Wang , Ya-Feng Liu , Zhilin Chen , Wei Yu

Inspired by group testing algorithms and the coded computation paradigm, we propose and analyze a novel multiple access scheme for detecting active users in large-scale networks. The scheme consists of a simple randomized detection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Matthias Frey , Igor Bjelaković , Sławomir Stańczak

The problem of uplink transmissions in massive connectivity is commonly dealt with using schemes for grant-free random access. When a large number of devices transmit almost synchronously, the receiver may not be able to resolve the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Ao Chen , Wei Chen , Bo Ai , Petar Popovski

This paper presents a cross-layer approach for optimizing the delay performance of a multiuser diversity system with heterogeneous block-fading channels and a delay-sensitive bursty-traffic. We consider the downlink of a time-slotted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-02-10 Jalil Seifali Harsini , Farshad Lahouti

Cell-free communication has the potential to significantly improve grant-free transmission in massive machine-type communication, wherein multiple access points jointly serve a large number of user equipments to improve coverage and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Gangle Sun , Mengyao Cao , Wenjin Wang , Wei Xu , Christoph Studer

This paper considers the massive connectivity problem in an asynchronous grant-free random access system, where a huge number of devices sporadically transmit data to a base station (BS) with imperfect synchronization. The goal is to design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Weifeng Zhu , Meixia Tao , Xiaojun Yuan , Yunfeng Guan

In this paper, we propose a turbo receiver for joint activity detection and data decoding in grant-free massive random access, which iterates between a detector and a belief propagation (BP)-based channel decoder. Specifically, responsible…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-21 Xinyu Bian , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

In this correspondence, we investigate networked sensing in perceptive mobile networks under a bistatic multi-transmitter single-receiver uplink topology, where multiple user equipments (UEs) transmit signals over orthogonal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Jingying Bao , J. Andrew Zhang , Kai Wu , Christos Masouros , Y. Jay Guo

This letter proposes a deep learning-based data-aided active user detection network (D-AUDN) for grant-free sparse code multiple access (SCMA) systems that leverages both SCMA codebook and Zadoff-Chu preamble for activity detection. Due to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Minsig Han , Ameha T. Abebe , Chung G. Kang

In this paper, we consider the problem of power efficient uplink scheduling in a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) system over a fading wireless channel. The objective is to minimize the power expenditure of each user subject to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-10-08 Nitin Salodkar , Abhay Karandikar , Vivek S. Borkar