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This paper investigates the issue of cooperative activity detection for grant-free random access in the sixth-generation (6G) cell-free wireless networks with sourced and unsourced paradigms. First, we propose a cooperative framework for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Xiaodan Shao , Xiaoming Chen , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Caijun Zhong , Zhaoyang Zhang

Grant-free cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output (GF-CF-MaMIMO) systems are anticipated to be a key enabling technology for next-generation Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks, as they support massive connectivity without explicit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Christian Forsch , Laura Cottatellucci

Massive MIMO opens up new avenues for enabling highly efficient random access (RA) by offering abundance of spatial degrees of freedom. In this paper, we investigate the grant-free RA with massive MIMO and derive the analytic expressions of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Jie Ding , Daiming Qu , Hao Jiang , Tao Jiang

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) are fundamental to the Internet of Things (IoT) framework in future wireless networks, involving the connection of a vast number of devices with sporadic transmission patterns. Traditional device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Xinjue Wang , Esa Ollila , Sergiy A. Vorobyov

Massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC) features a massive number of low-cost user equipments (UEs) with sparse activity. Tailor-made for these features, grant-free random access (GF-RA) serves as an efficient access solution for mMTC.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Zhaoji Zhang , Yuhao Chi , Qinghua Guo , Ying Li , Guanghui Song , Chongwen Huang

Existing works on grant-free access, proposed to support massive machine-type communication (mMTC) for the Internet of things (IoT), mainly concentrate on narrow band systems under flat fading. However, little is known about massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Yuhang Jia , Ying Cui , Wuyang Jiang

In this paper, we explore various multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) techniques to design grant-free random access (RA) schemes for low-complexity, low-power battery operated devices in massive machine-type communication (mMTC)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Muhammad Awais Jadoon , Adriano Pastore , Monica Navarro , Alvaro Valcarce

Most existing studies on joint activity detection and channel estimation for grant-free massive random access (RA) systems assume perfect synchronization among all active users, which is hard to achieve in practice. Therefore, this paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Xinyu Bian , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

Grant-free random access (RA) has been recognized as a promising solution to support massive connectivity due to the removal of the uplink grant request procedures. While most endeavours assume perfect synchronization among users and the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Xinyu Bian , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

Device activity detection and channel estimation for massive grant-free access under frequency-selective fading have unfortunately been an outstanding problem. This paper aims to address the challenge. Specifically, we present an orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Yuhang Jia , Ying Cui , Wuyang Jiang

Extra-large massive multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems is a new concept, where spatial non-stationarities allow activate a high number of user equipments (UEs). This paper focuses on a grant-based random access (RA) approach…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Otávio Seidi Nishimura , José Carlos Marinello Filho , Taufik Abrão

Grant-free massive access is an important technique for supporting massive machine-type communications (mMTC) for Internet-of-Things (IoT). Two important features in grant-free massive access are low-complexity devices and short-packet data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Gang Chen , Ying Cui , Hei Victor Cheng , Feng Yang , Lianghui Ding

Grant Free Random Access (GFRA) is a popular protocol in the Internet of Things (IoT) to reduce the control signaling. GFRA is a framed protocol where each frame is split into two parts: device identification; and data transmission part…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Alix Jeannerot , Malcolm Egan , Jean-Marie Gorce

In this paper, an LSTM-aided hybrid random access scheme (LSTMH-RA) is proposed to support diverse quality of service (QoS) requirements in 6G machine-type communication (MTC) networks, where massive MTC (mMTC) devices and ultra-reliable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-01 Wenchao Zhai , Huimei Han , Lei Liu , Jun Zhao

In the 6G Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, unprecedented challenges will be raised to provide massive connectivity, ultra-low latency, and energy efficiency for ultra-dense IoT devices. To address these challenges, we explore the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-17 Haibo Wang , Hongwei Gao , Pai Jiang , Matthieu De Mari , Panzer Gu , Yinsheng Liu

We develop a new algorithm for activity detection for grant-free multiple access in distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO). The algorithm is a distributed version of the approximate message passing (AMP) based on a soft…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Jianan Bai , Erik G. Larsson

The central challenge in massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is to connect a large number of uncoordinated devices through a limited spectrum. The typical mMTC communication pattern is sporadic, with short packets. This could be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Yanna Bai , Wei Chen , Feifei Sun , Bo Ai , Petar Popovski

Resource allocation and multiple access schemes are instrumental for the success of communication networks, which facilitate seamless wireless connectivity among a growing population of uncoordinated and non-synchronized users. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Sajad Daei , Saeed Razavikia , Marios Kountouris , Mikael Skoglund , Gabor Fodor , Carlo Fischione

Device activity detection is one main challenge in grant-free random access, which is recently proposed to support massive access for massive machine-type communications (mMTC). Existing solutions fail to consider interference generated by…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Dongdong Jiang , Ying Cui

This paper focuses on spectrum sharing in heterogeneous wireless networks, where nodes with different Media Access Control (MAC) protocols to transmit data packets to a common access point over a shared wireless channel. While previous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Zhaoyang Liu , Xijun Wang , Chenyuan Feng , Xinghua Sun , Wen Zhan , Xiang Chen