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The massiveness of devices in crowded Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications brings new challenges to existing random-access (RA) schemes, such as heavy signaling overhead and severe access collisions. In order to reduce the signaling…
We propose a novel user equipment (UE) scheduling framework for millimeter-wave (mmWave) massive multiuser (MU) multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless systems. Our framework determines (sub)sets of UEs that should transmit…
In next generation Internet-of-Things, the overhead introduced by grant-based multiple access protocols may engulf the access network as a consequence of the unprecedented number of connected devices. Grant-free access protocols are…
Massive access has been challenging for the fifth generation (5G) and beyond since the abundance of devices causes communication overload to skyrocket. In an uplink massive access scenario, device traffic is sporadic in any given coherence…
The conventional grant-based network relies on the handshaking between base station and active users to achieve dynamic multi-user scheduling, which may cost large signaling overheads as well as system latency. To address those problems,…
To realize orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based grant-free access for wideband systems under frequency-selective fading, existing device activity detection and channel estimation methods need substantial accuracy…
With the emergence of machine-driven communi- cation, there is a renewed interest in the design of random multiple access schemes for networks with large number of active devices. Many of the recently proposed access paradigms are…
In this work, we propose the joint optimization of the automatic gain control (AGC), which works in the remote radio heads (RHHs), and a low-resolution aware (LRA) linear receive filter based on the minimum mean square error (MMSE), which…
In this letter, we develop a unified Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound (CRB) framework to characterize the fundamental performance limits of transmission activity detection in fluid antenna systems (FASs) and conventional multiple fixed-position antenna…
The proliferation of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites for universal IoT applications and the growing use of drones in emergency services, agriculture, and military operations highlight the transformative potential of non-terrestrial…
Both faster than Nyquist (FTN) signaling and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) are promising next generation wireless communications techniques as a benefit of their capability of improving the system's spectral efficiency. This paper…
This paper proposes a computationally efficient algorithm to solve the joint data and activity detection problem for massive random access with massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). The BS acquires the active devices and their data…
We study a full-duplex (FD) cell-free massive MIMO system where distributed access points (APs) operate in FD mode while user equipments (UEs) remain half-duplex. Although simultaneous uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) transmissions improve…
Device activity detection is one main challenge in grant-free massive access, which is recently proposed to support massive machine-type communications (mMTC). Existing solutions for device activity detection fail to consider inter-cell…
How to meet the demand for increasing number of users, higher data rates, and stringent quality-of-service (QoS) in the beyond fifth-generation (B5G) networks? Cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is considered as a…
Support massive connectivity is an important requirement in 5G wireless communication system. For massive Machine Type Communication (MTC) scenario, since the network is expected to accommodate a massive number of MTC devices with sparse…
Movable antenna (MA) is a promising technology to exploit the spatial variation of wireless channel for performance enhancement, by dynamically varying the antenna position within a certain region. However, for multi-antenna communication…
We consider the uplink of a grant-free cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (GF-CF-MaMIMO) system. We propose an algorithm for distributed joint activity detection, channel estimation, and data detection (JACD) based on…
Cell-free (CF) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) systems are emerging as promising alternatives to cellular networks, especially in ultra-dense environments. However, further capacity enhancement requires the deployment of more…
Device-free localization trains models from heterogeneous wireless and visual sensors (e.g., Wi-Fi, LiDAR) distributed across edge devices. Federated learning offers a privacy-respecting framework, but is brittle when clients differ in…