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The cellular Internet-of-Things has resulted in the deployment of millions of machine-type communication (MTC) devices. These massive number of devices must communicate with a single gNodeB (gNB) via the random access channel (RACH)…

This paper revisits the identity detection problem under the current grant-free protocol in massive machine-type communications (mMTC) by asking the following question: for stable identity detection performance, is it enough to permit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Minhao Zhu , Yifei Sun , Lizhao You , Zhaorui Wang , Ya-Feng Liu , Shuguang Cui

In this paper, we design a new smart software-defined radio access network architecture which is flexible and traffic and density aware for the fifth generation (5G) of cellular wireless networks and beyond. The proposed architecture, based…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Mohammad Moltafet , Sepehr Rezvani , Nader Mokari , Mohammad R. Javan , Eduard A. Jorswieck

Many real-world situations allow for the acquisition of additional relevant information when making an assessment with limited or uncertain data. However, traditional ML approaches either require all features to be acquired beforehand or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Yang Li , Junier B. Oliva

CF-mMIMO systems are a promising solution to enhance the performance in 6G wireless networks. Its distributed nature of the architecture makes it highly reliable, provides sufficient coverage and allows higher performance than cellular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-12 Ramprasad Raghunath , Bile Peng , Eduard A. Jorswieck

A multi-cell Fog-Radio Access Network (F-RAN) architecture is considered in which Internet of Things (IoT) devices periodically make noisy observations of a Quantity of Interest (QoI) and transmit using grant-free access in the uplink. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Rahif Kassab , Osvaldo Simeone , Petar Popovski

User activity detection in grant-free random access massive machine type communication (mMTC) using pilot-hopping sequences can be formulated as solving a non-negative least squares (NNLS) problem. In this work, two architectures using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-08 Narges Mohammadi Sarband , Ema Becirovic , Mattias Krysander , Erik G. Larsson , Oscar Gustafsson

This paper investigates the problem of activity detection and channel estimation in cooperative multi-cell massive access systems with temporally correlated activity, where all access points (APs) are connected to a central unit via…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-20 Weifeng Zhu , Meixia Tao , Xiaojun Yuan , Fan Xu , Yunfeng Guan

Massive Machine-Type Communication (mMTC) is expected to be strongly supported by future 5G wireless networks. Its deployment, however, is seriously challenged by the high risk of random access (RA) collision. A popular concept is to reduce…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Bin Han , Hans D. Schotten

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is one of the main three focus areas in the 5th generation (5G) of mobile standards to enable connectivity of a massive number of internet of things (IoT) devices with little or no human…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-16 Muhammad Basit Shahab , Rana Abbas , Mahyar Shirvanimoghaddam , Sarah J. Johnson

This paper investigates joint channel estimation and device activity detection in the LEO satellite-enabled grant-free random access systems with large differential delay and Doppler shift. In addition, the multiple-input multiple-output…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Boxiao Shen , Yongpeng Wu , Wenjun Zhang , Geoffrey Ye Li , Jianping An , Chengwen Xing

The dynamic allocation of spectrum in 5G / 6G networks is critical to efficient resource utilization. However, applying traditional deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is often infeasible due to its immense sample complexity and the safety…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Oluwaseyi Giwa , Tobi Awodunmila , Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin , Ahsan Bilal , Muhammad Ali Jamshed

Grant-free random access is a promising protocol to support massive access in beyond fifth-generation (B5G) cellular Internet-of-Things (IoT) with sporadic traffic. Specifically, in each coherence interval, the base station (BS) performs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Xiaodan Shao , Xiaoming Chen , Rundong Jia

Preamble collision is a bottleneck that impairs the performance of random access (RA) user equipment (UE) in grant-free RA (GFRA). In this paper, by leveraging distributed massive multiple input multiple output (mMIMO) together with machine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-29 Jie Ding , Daiming Qu , Pei Liu , Jinho Choi

Cell-free multiple-input multiple-output (CF-MIMO) architecture significantly enhances wireless network performance, offering a promising solution for delay-sensitive applications. This paper investigates the resource allocation problem in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Shuangbo Xiong , Cheng Zhang , Wen Wang , Wenwu Yu , Yongming Huang

In this paper, we study the problem of user activity detection and large-scale fading coefficient estimation in a random access wireless uplink with a massive MIMO base station with a large number $M$ of antennas and a large number of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Alexander Fengler , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

Micro-gesture recognition (MGR) targets the identification of subtle and fine-grained human motions and requires accurate modeling of both long-range and local spatiotemporal dependencies. While CNNs are effective at capturing local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Deng Li , Jun Shao , Bohao Xing , Rong Gao , Bihan Wen , Heikki Kälviäinen , Xin Liu

Accurately predicting the performance of active radio frequency (RF) circuits is essential for modern wireless systems but remains challenging due to highly nonlinear, layout-sensitive behavior and the high computational cost of traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Anahita Asadi , Leonid Popryho , Inna Partin-Vaisband

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

Semi-grant-free (SGF) transmission has recently received significant attention due to its capability to accommodate massive connectivity and reduce access delay by admitting grant-free users to channels which would otherwise be solely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Z. Ding , R. Schober , H. V. Poor