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With the stringent requirements introduced by the new sixth-generation (6G) internet-of-things (IoT) use cases, traditional approaches to multiple access control have started to show their limitations. A new wave of grant-free (GF)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Alberto Rech , Stefano Tomasin , Lorenzo Vangelista , Cristina Costa

In this paper, a Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) scheme is proposed to assist a Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) system where local computation tasks from two users are offloaded to the MEC server, facilitated by uplink RSMA for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Jiawei Xu , Yumeng Zhang , Yunnuo Xu , Bruno Clerckx

There are three generic services in 5G: enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC), and massive machine-type communications (mMTC). To guarantee the performance of heterogeneous services, network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Yuanwen Liu , Bruno Clerckx , Petar Popovski

This document serves as supplementary material for our journal submission, providing detailed mathematical proofs and derivations that support the results presented in the main manuscript. Specifically, under a modeling framework that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Xuejun Cheng , Qian Zhang , Yunnuo Xu , Zheng Dong , Ju Liu , Bruno Clerckx

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

As an enhanced version of massive machine-type communication in 5G, massive communication has emerged as one of the six usage scenarios anticipated for 6G, owing to its potential in industrial internet-of-things and smart metering. Driven…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yutao Chen , Wei Chen

The envisioned wireless networks of the future entail the provisioning of massive numbers of connections, heterogeneous data traffic, ultra-high spectral efficiency, and low latency services. This vision is spurring research activities…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Xuelin Cao , Bo Yang , Chongwen Huang , George C. Alexandropoulos , Chau Yuen , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor , Lajos Hanzo

Integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP) has emerged as a promising solution for enabling multi-functionality in 6G networks. However, it poses a significant challenge in the design of multi-functional waveforms that must…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-18 Xiaoxuan Jiang , Yijie Mao

Supporting immense throughput and ubiquitous connectivity holds paramount importance for future wireless networks. To this end, this letter focuses on how the spatial beams configured for legacy near-field (NF) users can be leveraged to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jiasi Zhou , Cong Zhou , Yijie Mao , Chintha Tellambura

This letter introduces a novel framework to optimize the power allocation for users in a Rate Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) network. In the network, messages intended for users are split into different parts that are a single common part…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Nguyen Quang Hieu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Dusit Niyato , Dong In Kim

This paper addresses the challenge of power control in Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA) systems for downlink Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) networks under practical impairments such as spatial correlation, imperfect Channel State…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-13 Sayanti Ghosh , Indrakshi Dey , Nicola Marchetti

Reconfigurable intelligent surface-empowered communication (RIS) and sparse code multiple access (SCMA) are promising candidates for future generations of wireless networks. The former enhances the transmission environments, whereas the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Ertugrul Basar

Cooperative rate splitting (CRS), built upon rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) and opportunistic user relaying, has been recognized as a promising transmission strategy to enhance the user fairness and spectral efficiency in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Kangchun Zhao , Yijie Mao , Zhaohui Yang , Lixiang Lian , Bruno Clerckx

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-assisted mobile edge computing (MEC) systems have shown notable improvements in efficiency, such as reduced latency, higher data rates, and better energy efficiency. However, the resource competition…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Yinyu Wu , Xuhui Zhang , Yingchao Jiao , Jinke Ren , Yanyan Shen , Bo Yang , Shuqiang Wang , Dusit Niyato

With the rapid proliferation of smart devices in wireless networks, more powerful technologies are expected to fulfill the network requirements of high throughput, massive connectivity, and diversify quality of service. To this end, rate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Huabing Lu , Xianzhong Xie , Zhaoyuan Shi , Hongjian Lei , Nan Zhao , Jun Cai

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has been studied for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MUMIMO) systems especially in the presence of imperfect channel state information (CSI) at the transmitter. However, its precoding designs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Wentao Zhou , Yijie Mao , Di Zhang , Mérouane Debbah , Inkyu Lee

Joint optimization for common rate allocation and beamforming design have been widely studied in rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) empowered multiuser multi-antenna transmission networks. Due to the highly coupled optimization variables…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Tianyu Fang , Yijie Mao

Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) is a cutting-edge concept for the sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks. In this paper, we propose a novel system that incorporates STAR-RIS with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Mojtaba Amiri , Elaheh Vaezpour , Sepideh Javadi , Mohammad Robat Mili , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Mehdi Bennis

Six-dimensional movable antenna (6DMA) is an emerging technology that is able to fully exploit the spatial variation of wireless channels by controlling the 3D positions and 3D rotations of distributed antennas/antenna surfaces at the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Xiaodan Shao , Rui Zhang , Robert Schober

The plethora of wirelessly connected devices, whose deployment density is expected to largely increase in the upcoming sixth Generation (6G) of wireless networks, will naturally necessitate substantial advances in multiple access schemes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Konstantinos D. Katsanos , Paolo Di Lorenzo , George C. Alexandropoulos