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Satellite Internet-of-Things (IoT) enables massive status-update services beyond terrestrial coverage, but grant-free uplink access creates a coupled freshness-control problem: increasing repetition and receiver-side diversity improves a…
The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) and bidirectional communications in smart grid are expected to improve smart grid capabilities and electricity management. Because of massive number of IoT devices in smart grid, size of the data to be…
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More and more emerging Internet of Things (IoT) applications involve status updates, where various IoT devices monitor certain physical processes and report their latest statuses to the relevant information fusion nodes. A new performance…
Flexible and efficient wireless resource sharing across heterogeneous services is a key objective for future wireless networks. In this context, we investigate the performance of a system where latency-constrained internet-of-things (IoT)…
Internet of Things (IoT) applications combine sensing, wireless communication, intelligence, and actuation, enabling the interaction among heterogeneous devices that collect and process considerable amounts of data. However, the…
Many Internet of Things (IoT) networks with Radio Frequency (RF) powered devices operate over a shared medium. They thus require a channel access protocol. Unlike conventional networks where devices have unlimited energy, in an RF-powered…
As an enhanced version of massive machine-type communication in 5G, massive communication has emerged as one of the six usage scenarios anticipated for 6G, owing to its potential in industrial internet-of-things and smart metering. Driven…
This letter presents a flexible rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) framework for near-field (NF) integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). The spatial beams configured to meet the communication rate requirements of NF users are…
Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are pervading different application domains by relying on sensing and actuating devices that share, process and present meaningful real-world information. One of the most important of these domains is…
In this paper, we propose a compressive random access (CRA) scheme using multiple resource blocks (RBs) to support massive connections for machine type communications (MTC). The proposed CRA scheme is scalable. As a result, if the number of…
Internet of Things (IoT) is very attractive because of its promises. However, it brings many challenges, mainly issues about privacy preserving and lightweight cryptography. Many schemes have been designed so far but none of them…
Extreme crowding of electromagnetic spectrum in recent years has led to the challenges in designing sensing and communications systems. Both systems require a broad range of bandwidth, thus resulting in competing interests in exploiting the…
With the rapid development of Internet of Things (IoT), massive devices are deployed, which poses severe challenges on access networks due to limited communication resources. When massive users contend for access, the information freshness…
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,…
Massive MIMO is one of the key technologies to support the growth of massive access attempts by devices, such as in massive machine type communication (mMTC). The evolution of antenna array technology brought the recent extra-large scale…
Nowadays, Machine-to-Machine (M2M) and Internet of Things (IoT) traffic rate is increasing at a fast pace. The use of satellites is expected to play a large role in delivering such a traffic. In this work, we investigate the use of two of…
The rapid evolution of wireless technologies has intensified interest in open and fully programmable radio access networks for whole-stack research, innovation, and evaluation of emerging solutions. Large-scale wireless living labs, such as…
This report summarizes some considerations on possible evolutions of grant-free random access in the next generation of the 3GPP wireless cellular standard. The analysis is carried out by mapping the problem to the recently-introduced…
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…