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Unsourced random access (URA) is an increasingly popular communication paradigm attuned to machine driven data transfers in \textit{Internet-of-Things} (IoT) networks. In a typical URA setting, a small subset of active devices within a very…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Krishna R. Narayanan

Large communication networks, e.g. Internet of Things (IoT), are known to be vulnerable to co-channel interference. One possibility to address this issue is the use of orthogonal multiple access (OMA) techniques. However, due to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Steven Kisseleff , Symeon Chatzinotas , Björn Ottersten

Wi-Fi networks have long relied on the Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) mechanism, allowing stations to compete for transmission opportunities. However, as networks become denser and emerging applications demand lower latency and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Douglas Dziedzorm Agbeve , Andrey Belogaev , Jeroen Famaey

We consider an unsourced random access (URA) system enhanced with a feedback mechanism that serves both communication and sensing tasks. While traditional URA systems do not incorporate feedback, we propose a novel feedback signal design…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Mohammad Kazemi , Rafael F. Schaefer

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 2021-12-10 Alexander Fengler , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

IEEE 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) introduced Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), which enables simultaneous transmissions through centralized resource allocation. However, effective uplink scheduling requires the Access Point (AP)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Douglas Dziedzorm Agbeve , Andrey Belogaev , Chris Blondia , Jeroen Famaey

Unsourced random access (URA) has emerged as a pragmatic framework for next-generation distributed sensor networks. Within URA, concatenated coding structures are often employed to ensure that the central base station can accurately recover…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Jamison R. Ebert , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Krishna R. Narayanan

We put forward a new algorithmic solution to the massive unsourced random access (URA) problem, by leveraging the rich spatial dimensionality offered by large-scale antenna arrays. This paper makes an observation that spatial signature is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Volodymyr Shyianov , Faouzi Bellili , Amine Mezghani , Ekram Hossain

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) as well as other orthogonal multiple access techniques fail to achieve the system capacity limit in the uplink due to the exclusivity in resource allocation. This issue is more prominent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Mohammed Al-Imari , Pei Xiao , Muhammad Ali Imran , Rahim Tafazolli

A joint sparse-regression-code (SPARC) and low-density-parity-check (LDPC) coding scheme for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) massive unsourced random access (URA) is proposed in this paper. Different from the state-of-the-art…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Tianya Li , Yongpeng Wu , Mengfan Zheng , Dongming Wang , Wenjun Zhang

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 unsourced random access (uRA) in user-centric cell-free (CF) wireless networks, where random access users send codewords from a common codebook during specifically dedicated random access channel (RACH) slots. The system is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Eleni Gkiouzepi , Burak Çakmak , Manfred Opper , Giuseppe Caire

This paper considers an unsourced random access (URA) set-up equipped with a passive reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS), where a massive number of unidentified users (only a small fraction of them being active at any given time) are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Mohammad Kazemi , Tolga M. Duman

We consider the problem of unsourced random access (U-RA), a grant-free uncoordinated form of random access, in a wireless channel with a massive MIMO base station equipped with a large number $M$ of antennas and a large number of wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Alexander Fengler , Saeid Haghighatshoar , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) demand robust solutions to support extensive connectivity efficiently. Unsourced random access (URA) has emerged as a promising approach, delivering high spectral and energy efficiency. Among URA…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Liandong Hu , Jian Dang , Zaichen Zhang

In this paper, we study a layered random access scheme based on non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to improve the throughput of multichannel ALOHA. At a receiver, successive interference cancellation (SIC) is carried out across layers to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-11 Jinho Choi

In this paper, we propose a novel fully Bayesian approach for the massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) massive unsourced random access (URA). The payload of each user device is coded by the sparse regression codes (SPARCs) without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Jia-Cheng Jiang , Hui-Ming Wang

This paper proposes and demonstrates a PHY-layer design of a real-time prototype that supports Ultra-Reliable Communication (URC) in wireless infrastructure networks. The design makes use of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Jiaxin Liang , Soung Chang Liew

In this paper, we explore an efficient uncoupled unsourced random access (UURA) scheme for 6G massive communication. UURA is a typical framework of unsourced random access that addresses the problems of codeword detection and message…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Feiyan Tian , Xiaoming Chen , Chongwen Huang , Zhaoyang Zhang

This work introduces security for unsourced random access (URA) by employing physical layer security techniques. To achieve confidentiality, the proposed system opportunistically exploits intrinsic features of feedback-aided URA without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Rafael F. Schaefer , H. Vincent Poor