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Slotted Aloha-based Random Access (RA) techniques have recently regained attention in light of the use of Interference Cancellation (IC) as a mean to exploit diversity created through the transmission of multiple burst copies per packet…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-29 Alessio Meloni , Maurizio Murroni

In this correspondence, we propose a space domain index modulation (IM) scheme for the downlink of multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems. Instead of the most common approach where spatial bits select active receiver…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-23 Nuno Souto , Américo Correia

A high success rate of grant-free random access scheme is proposed to support massive access for machine-to-machine communications in massive multipleinput multiple-output systems. This scheme allows active user equipments (UEs) to transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Huimei Han , Lushun Fang , Weidang Lu , Wenchao Zhai , Ying Li , Jun Zhao

In this article, we consider a random access scheme for an indoor Internet of Things (IoT) framework that uses optical wireless communication (OWC). We focus on a Slotted ALOHA (SA)-based solution where a number of OWC IoT users contend to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Milica Petkovic , Tijana Devaja , Dejan Vukobratovic , Francisco J. Escribano , Cedomir Stefanovic

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been considered as a promising solution for improving the spectrum efficiency of next-generation wireless networks. In this paper, the performance of a p-persistent slotted ALOHA system in support…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Ziru Chen , Yong Liu , Sami Khairy , Lin X. Cai , Yu Cheng , Ran Zhang

This paper studies a symbiotic system in which a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assists a radar transmitter while conveying information to a reader via backscattering. The RIS is partitioned into subarrays that redirect the radar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Mehri Nikzad , Luca Venturino , Emanuele Grossi , Xiaodong Wang

In this paper, we investigate for the first time the dynamic power allocation and decoding order at the base station (BS) of two-user uplink (UL) cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (C-NOMA)-based cellular networks. In doing so, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Mohamed Elhattab , Mohamed Amine Arfaoui , Chadi Assi , Ali Ghrayeb , Marwa Qaraqe

Uplink rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) requires optimization of decoding order and power allocation, while decoding order is a discrete variable, and it is very complex to find the optimal decoding order if the number of users is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Jiewen Hu , Gang Liu , Zheng Ma , Ming Xiao , Pingzhi Fan

The rise of machine-to-machine communications has rekindled the interest in random access protocols as a support for a massive number of uncoordinatedly transmitting devices. The legacy ALOHA approach is developed under a collision model,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Enrico Paolini , Cedomir Stefanovic , Gianluigi Liva , Petar Popovski

Motivated by the need to hide the complexity of the physical layer from performance analysis in a layer 2 protocol, a class of abstract receivers, called Poisson receivers, was recently proposed in [1] as a probabilistic framework for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Tzu-Hsuan Liu , Che-Hao Yu , Yi-Jheng Lin , Cheng-Shang Chang , Duan-Shin Lee

In this paper we propose a downlink codebook-based opportunistic interference alignment (OIA) in a three-cell MIMO system. A codebook composed of multiple transmit vector sets is utilized to improve the multiuser selection diversity. The…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-20 Haijing Liu , Hui Gao , Wei Long , Tiejun Lv

In this paper, we review the key figures of merit to assess the performance of advanced random access (RA) schemes exploiting physical layer coding, repetitions and collision resolution techniques. We then investigate RA modeling aspects…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-22 Alberto Mengali , Riccardo De Gaudenzi , Cedomir Stefanovic

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-enabled backscatter communications can be enabled by an access point (AP) that splits its transmit signal into modulated and unmodulated parts. This letter integrates non-orthogonal multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Azar Hakimi , Shayan Zargari , Chintha Tellambura , Sanjeewa Herath

The present paper focuses on an IoT setting in which a large number of devices generate time-stamped updates addressed to a common gateway. Medium access is regulated following a grant-free approach, and the system aims at maintaining an…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Hooman Asgari , Andrea Munari , Gianluigi Liva

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is recognized as a promising radio access technique for the next generation wireless systems. We consider a practical downlink NOMA system with imperfect successive interference cancellation and derive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-19 Nemalidinne Siva Mouni , Pavan Reddy M. , Abhinav Kumar , Prabhat K. Upadhyay

Massive machine-type communications protocols have typically been designed under the assumption that coordination between users requires significant communication overhead and is thus impractical. Recent progress in efficient activity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Justin Kang , Wei Yu

Unitary space-time modulation is known to be an efficient means to communicate over non-coherent Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) channels. In this letter, differential unitary space-time coding and non-coherent space-time coding for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-17 G. Susinder Rajan , B. Sundar Rajan

In this work, we discuss the problem of unsourced random access (URA) over a Gaussian multiple access channel (GMAC). To address the challenges posed by emerging massive machine-type connectivity, URA reframes multiple access as a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Zhentian Zhang , Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Jian Dang , Kai-Kit Wong , Zaichen Zhang , Christos Masouros

This paper presents a new Interference Alignment (IA) scheme for K-User Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Interference Channel (IC) based on two metaheuristics, namely Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and Artificial Bee Colony (ABC)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-04 Lysa Ait Messaoud , Fatiha Merazka , Daniel Massicotte

Long-horizon navigation in complex urban environments relies heavily on continuous human operation, which leads to fatigue, reduced efficiency, and safety concerns. Shared autonomy, where a Vision-Language AI agent and a human operator…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yukai Ma , Honglin He , Selina Song , Wayne Wu , Bolei Zhou