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Semi-grant-free (Semi-GF) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) enables grant-free (GF) and grant-based (GB) users to share the same resource blocks, thereby balancing the connectivity and stability of communications. This letter analyzes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Chao Zhang , Yuanwei Liu , Wenqiang Yi , Zhijin Qin , Zhiguo Ding

Restoring critical loads after extreme events demands adaptive control to maintain distribution-grid resilience, yet uncertainty in renewable generation, limited dispatchable resources, and nonlinear dynamics make effective restoration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Zain ul Abdeen , Waris Gill , Ming Jin

We propose the Soft Graph Transformer (SGT), a soft-input-soft-output neural architecture designed for MIMO detection. While Maximum Likelihood (ML) detection achieves optimal accuracy, its exponential complexity makes it infeasible in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Jiadong Hong , Lei Liu , Xinyu Bian , Wenjie Wang , Zhaoyang Zhang

Grant-free random access (RA) with massive MIMO is a promising RA technique for massive access with low signaling overhead. In the grant-free RA with massive MIMO, preamble length has a critical impact on the performance of the system. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-02 Jie Ding , Daiming Qu , Hao Jiang

This paper studies the massive machine-type communications (mMTC) for the future Internet of Things (IoT) applications, where a large number of IoT devices exist in the network and a random subset of them become active at each time instant.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-22 Lei Cheng , Liang Liu , Shuguang Cui

We investigate the activity detection and channel estimation issues for cell-free Internet of Things (IoT) networks with massive random access. In each time slot, only partial devices are active and communicate with neighboring access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Xinhua Wang , Alexei Ashikhmin , Zhicheng Dong , Chao Zhai

Accurately detecting symbols transmitted over multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wireless channels is crucial in realizing the benefits of MIMO techniques. However, optimal MIMO detection is associated with a complexity that grows…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Xingyu Zhou , Le Liang , Jing Zhang , Chao-Kai Wen , Shi Jin

Recently, grant-free random access schemes have received significant attention in the scientific community as a solution for extremely low-latency massive communications in new industrial Internet-of-things (IIoT) and digital twins…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-26 Davide Dardari , Marina Lotti , Nicolò Decarli , Gianni Pasolini

Massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC) is a key service category in the current generation of wireless networks featuring an extremely high density of energy and resource-limited devices with sparse and sporadic activity patterns. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jyotish Robin , Elza Erkip

Multimodal sensors provide complementary information to develop accurate machine-learning methods for human activity recognition (HAR), but introduce significantly higher computational load, which reduces efficiency. This paper proposes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Ziqi Gao , Yuntao Wang , Jianguo Chen , Junliang Xing , Shwetak Patel , Xin Liu , Yuanchun Shi

Efficient and low-latency wireless connectivity between the base station (BS) and a sparse set of sporadically active devices from a massive number of devices is crucial for random access in emerging massive machine-type communications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jyotish Robin , Elza Erkip

The Radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting technique makes highly secure device authentication possible for future networks by exploiting hardware imperfections introduced during manufacturing. Although this technique has received considerable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Chuanting Zhang , Shuping Dang , Junqing Zhang , Haixia Zhang , Mark A. Beach

This paper focuses on energy savings in downlink operation of cell-free massive MIMO (CF mMIMO) networks under dynamic traffic conditions. We propose a multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (MADRL) algorithm that enables each access point…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Qichen Wang , Keyu Li , Ozan Alp Topal , Özlem Tugfe Demir , Mustafa Ozger , Cicek Cavdar

Quasi-static human activities such as lying, standing or sitting produce very low Doppler shifts and highly spread radar signatures, making them difficult to detect with conventional constant-false-alarm rate (CFAR) detectors tuned for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Huy Trinh , George Shaker

Semi-grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access (semi-GF NOMA) has emerged as a promising technology for the fifth-generation new radio (5G-NR) networks supporting the coexistence of a large number of random connections with various quality…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Duc-Dung Tran , Vu Nguyen Ha , Symeon Chatzinotas , Ti Ti Nguyen

This paper introduces a lightweight gesture recognition system based on 60 GHz frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar. We show that gestures can be characterized efficiently by a set of five features, and propose a slim radar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Maximilian Strobel , Stephan Schoenfeldt , Jonas Daugalas

The explosive growth of data results in more scarce spectrum resources. It is important to optimize the system performance under limited resources. In this paper, we investigate how to achieve weighted throughput (WTP) maximization for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Jiafei Fu , Pengcheng Zhu , Bo Ai , Jiangzhou Wang , Xiaohu You

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-15 Ziyue Wang , Zhilin Chen , Ya-Feng Liu , Foad Sohrabi , Wei Yu

This paper considers sparse device activity detection for cellular machine-type communications with non-orthogonal signatures using the approximate message passing algorithm. This paper compares two network architectures, massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Zhilin Chen , Foad Sohrabi , Wei Yu

As a means to support the access of massive machine-type communication devices, grant-free access and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) have received great deal of attention in recent years. In the grant-free transmission, each device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-30 Wonjun Kim , Youngjun Ahn , Byonghyo Shim