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This paper addresses the unsourced/uncoordinated random access problem in an integrated sensing and communications (ISAC) system, with a focus on uplink multiple access code design. Recent theoretical advancements highlight that an ISAC…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Zhentian Zhang , Jian Dang , Kai-Kit Wong , Zaichen Zhang , Christos Masouros

Massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC) features a massive number of low-cost user equipments (UEs) with sparse activity. Tailor-made for these features, grant-free random access (GF-RA) serves as an efficient access solution for mMTC.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Zhaoji Zhang , Yuhao Chi , Qinghua Guo , Ying Li , Guanghui Song , Chongwen Huang

Rateless Multiple Access (RMA) is a novel non-orthogonal multiple access framework that is promising for massive access in Internet of Things (IoT) due to its high efficiency and low complexity. In the framework, after certain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Zhaoyang Zhang , Xianbin Wang , Yu Zhang , Yan Chen

This article introduces a novel communication paradigm for the unsourced, uncoordinated Gaussian multiple access problem. The major components of the envisioned framework are as follows. The encoded bits of every message are partitioned…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Asit Pradhan , Vamsi Amalladinne , Avinash Vem , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland

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

In this work we treat the unsourced random access problem on a Rayleigh block-fading AWGN channel with multiple receive antennas. Specifically, we consider the slowly fading scenario where the coherence block-length is large compared to the…

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

Unsourced random access (URA) has emerged as a promising paradigm for enabling massive connectivity in Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. However, since URA transmissions do not contain device identifiers, the receiver may not associate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Wenbo Fan , Zeping Sui , Yuhei Takahashi , Jun Cheng , Zilong Liu , Pingzhi Fan

In this paper, we design a novel two-phase unsourced random access (URA) scheme in massive multiple input multiple output (MIMO). In the first phase, we collect a sequence of information bits to jointly acquire the user channel state…

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

In this work we treat the unsourced random access problem on a Rayleigh block-fading AWGN channel with multiple receive antennas. Specifically, we consider the slowly fading scenario where the coherence block-length is large compared to the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Alexander Fengler , Peter Jung , Giuseppe Caire

Massive communication is one of key scenarios of 6G where two magnitude higher connection density would be required to serve diverse services. As a promising direction, unsourced multiple access has been proved to outperform significantly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Yifei Yuan , Yuhong Huang , Chunlin Yan , Sen Wang , Shuai Ma , Xiaodong Shen

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 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

The central challenge in massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is to connect a large number of uncoordinated devices through a limited spectrum. The typical mMTC communication pattern is sporadic, with short packets. This could be…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Yanna Bai , Wei Chen , Feifei Sun , Bo Ai , Petar Popovski

Non-terrestrial Networks (NTNs) have become an appealing concept over the last few years and they are foreseen as a cornerstone for the next generations of mobile communication systems. Despite opening up new market opportunities and use…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 O. Kodheli , A. Astro , J. Querol , M. Gholamian , S. Kumar , N. Maturo , S. Chatzinotas

Type-based unsourced multiple access (TUMA) is a recently proposed framework for type-based estimation in massive uncoordinated access networks. We extend the existing design of TUMA, developed for an additive white Gaussian channel, to a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Kaan Okumus , Khac-Hoang Ngo , Giuseppe Durisi , Erik G. Ström

The widespread adoption of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) in future practical wireless systems is critically dependent on the integration of the RIS into higher-layer protocols beyond the physical (PHY) one, an issue that has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Victor Croisfelt , Fabio Saggese , Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Radosław Kotaba , Gabriele Gradoni , Petar Popovski

In this paper, we investigate the random access problem for a delay-constrained heterogeneous wireless network. As a first attempt to study this new problem, we consider a network with two users who deliver delay-constrained traffic to an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-16 Danzhou Wu , Lei Deng , Zilong Liu , Yijin Zhang , Yunghsiang S. Han

Identification and authentication are two basic functionalities of traditional random access protocols. In ALOHA-based random access, the packets usually include a field with a unique user address. However, when the number of users is…

We examine unsourced random access in a fully asynchronous setup, where active users transmit their data without restriction on the start time over a fading channel. In the proposed scheme, the transmitted signal consists of a pilot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Mert Ozates , Mohammad Kazemi , Gianluigi Liva , Deniz Gündüz

To account for the massive uncoordinated random access scenario, which is relevant for the Internet of Things, Polyanskiy (2017) proposed a novel formulation of the multiple-access problem, commonly referred to as unsourced multiple access,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Khac-Hoang Ngo , Alejandro Lancho , Giuseppe Durisi , Alexandre Graell i Amat