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Identification and authentication are two basic functionalities of traditional random access protocols. In ALOHA-based random access, the packets usually include a field with a unique user address. However, when the number of users is…

This paper considers a random access system where each sender can be in two modes of operation, active or not active, and where the set of active users is available to a common receiver only. Active transmitters encode data into independent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Paolo Minero , Massimo Franceschetti , David N. C. Tse

In the cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (CF mMIMO) system, the centralized transmission scheme is widely adopted to manage the inter-user interference. Unfortunately, its implementation is limited by the extensive signaling…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-02 Hongkang Yu , Xinquan Ye , Yijian Chen

Unsourced random-access (U-RA) is a type of grant-free random access with a virtually unlimited number of users, of which only a certain number $K_a$ are active on the same time slot. Users employ exactly the same codebook, and the task of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Alexander Fengler , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

We consider the problem of type estimation over unsourced multiple access fading channels in distributed multiple-input multiple-output (D-MIMO) systems. Unlike classical unsourced multiple access, type-based unsourced multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kaan Okumus , Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi , Erik G. Ström

In this letter, we propose a six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA)-aided cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system to fully exploit its macro spatial diversity, where a set of distributed access points (APs), each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xiaoming Shi , Xiaodan Shao , Beixiong Zheng , Rui Zhang

This paper addresses the unsourced/uncoordinated random access problem in an integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system, with a focus on uplink multiple access code design. Recent theoretical advancements highlight that an ISAC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Kai-Kit Wong , Zaichen Zhang , Christos Masouros

Evolving next-generation mobile networks is designed to provide ubiquitous coverage and networked sensing. With utility of multi-view sensing and multi-node joint transmission, cell-free is a promising technique to realize this prospect.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Fanfei Xu , Shengheng Liu , Zihuan Mao , Shangqing Shi , Dazhuan Xu , Dongming Wang , Yongming Huang

In future cell-free (or cell-less) wireless networks, a large number of devices in a geographical area will be served simultaneously in non-orthogonal multiple access scenarios by a large number of distributed access points (APs), which…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-25 Yasser Al-Eryani , Mohamed Akrout , Ekram Hossain

In the research of next-generation wireless communication technologies, orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation is emerging as a promising technique for high-speed mobile environments due to its superior efficiency and robustness…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Yanfeng Hu , Dongming Wang , Xinjiang Xia , Jiamin Li , Pengcheng Zhu , Xiaohu You

This paper investigates an uplink coordinated multi-point (CoMP) coverage scenario, in which multiple mobile users are grouped for sparse code multiple access (SCMA), and served by the remote radio head (RRH) in front of them and the RRH…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Yao Ge , Qinwen Deng , David González G. , Yong Liang Guan , Zhi Ding

We propose a four-stage hierarchical resource allocation scheme for the downlink of a large-scale small-cell network in the context of orthogonal frequency-division multiple access (OFDMA). Since interference limits the capabilities of such…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Sanam Sadr , Raviraj S. Adve

In this work, we propose iterative access point (AP) selection (APS), linear minimum mean-square error (MMSE) precoding and power allocation techniques for Cell-Free Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. We consider the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-13 V. Palhares , A. R. Flores , R. C. de Lamare

Integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) represents a key paradigm for future wireless networks. However, existing approaches require waveform modifications, dedicated pilots, or overhead that complicates standards integration. We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-09 Wentao Yu , Khaled B. Letaief , Lizhong Zheng

In this paper, we consider cell-free communication systems with several access points (APs) serving terrestrial users (UEs) simultaneously. To enhance the uplink multi-user multiple-input multiple-output communications, we adopt a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Xuesong Pan , Zhong Zheng , Xueqing Huang , Zesong Fei

A Cell-Free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) system comprises a very large number of distributed access points (APs)which simultaneously serve a much smaller number of users over the same time/frequency resources based on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Hien Quoc Ngo , Alexei Ashikhmin , Hong Yang , Erik G. Larsson , Thomas L. Marzetta

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

This article introduces a novel paradigm for the unsourced multiple-access communication problem. This divide-and-conquer approach leverages recent advances in compressive sensing and forward error correction to produce a computationally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-04 Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Avinash Vem , Dileep Kumar Soma , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland

This study focuses on (traditional and unsourced) multiple-access communication over a single transmit and multiple ($M$) receive antennas. We assume full or partial channel state information (CSI) at the receiver. It is known that to fully…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Alexander Fengler , Alejandro Lancho , Yury Polyanskiy

This paper studies distributed resource block (RB) allocation in wideband orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) cell-free systems. We propose a novel distributed sequential algorithm and its two variants, which optimize RB…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-11 Yang Ma , Shengqian Han , Chenyang Yang