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This article introduces a novel non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme for coordinated uplink channels. The scheme builds on the recently proposed sparse-regression low-density parity-check (SR-LDPC) code, and extends the underlying…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jamison R. Ebert , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Krishna R. Narayanan

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Jinho Choi

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

Being an effective non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique, sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is promising for future wireless communication. Compared with orthogonal techniques, SCMA enjoys higher overloading tolerance and lower…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Chuan Zhang , Chao Yang , Wei Xu , Shunqing Zhang , Zaichen Zhang , Xiaohu You

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

This paper proposes a novel hybrid-domain (HD) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) approach to support a larger number of uplink users than the recently proposed code-domain NOMA approach, i.e., sparse code multiple access (SCMA). HD-NOMA…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-28 Chen Quan , Animesh Yadav , Baocheng Geng , Pramod K. Varshney , H. Vincent Poor

The reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted sparse code multiple access (RIS-SCMA) is an attractive scheme for future wireless networks. In this letter, for the first time, the RIS phase shifts of the uplink RIS-SCMA system are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Ibrahim Al-Nahhal , Octavia A. Dobre , Ertugrul Basar , Telex M. N. Ngatched , Salama Ikki

Uplink (UL) dominated sporadic transmission and stringent latency requirement of massive machine type communication (mMTC) forces researchers to abandon complicated grant-acknowledgment based legacy networks. UL grant-free non-orthogonal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Shah Mahdi Hasan , Kaushik Mahata , Md Mashud Hyder

Multiple access communication systems enable numerous users to share common communication resources, playing a crucial role in wireless networks. With the emergence of the sixth generation (6G) and beyond communication networks, supporting…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Mert Ozates , Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Mohammad Kazemi , Deniz Gündüz , Tolga M. Duman

This work studies the optimization of rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) transmission technique for a cloud radio access network (C-RAN) downlink system. Main idea of RSMA is to split the message for each user equipment (UE) to private…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-05 Daesung Yu , Junbeom Kim , Seok-Hwan Park

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

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has attracted a lot of attention as a general and powerful multiple access scheme. In the uplink, instead of encoding the whole message into one stream, a user can split its message into two parts and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Yuanwen Liu , Bruno Clerckx , Petar Popovski

We study the problem of unsourced random access (URA) over Rayleigh block-fading channels with a receiver equipped with multiple antennas. We employ multiple stages of orthogonal pilots, each of which is randomly picked from a codebook. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Tolga M. Duman

The enormous quality of service (QoS) demands posed by mission-critical use-cases of future 5G/6G wireless communication raise the need for resource-efficient highly reliable and low latency connectivity solutions. Multi-connectivity is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Yasemin Karacora , Aydin Sezgin

This paper investigates practical 5G strategies for power-balanced non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). By allowing multiple users to share the same time and frequency, NOMA can scale up the number of served users and increase spectral…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Haoyuan Pan , Lu Lu , Soung Chang Liew

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

A novel random access (RA) scheme for mixed URLLC-mMTC traffic scenario is proposed using realistic statistical models, with the use mode presenting long-term traffic regularity. The traffic is predicted by a long short-term memory neural…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-12 Herman L. dos Santos , José Carlos Marinello , Cristiano Magalhaes Panazio , Taufik Abrão

The random access methods used for support of machine-type communications (MTC) in current cellular standards are derivatives of traditional framed slotted ALOHA and therefore do not support high user loads efficiently. Motivated by the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Nuno K. Pratas , Henning Thomsen , Cedomir Stefanovic , Petar Popovski

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

Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) scheme is considered to be one promising non-orthogonal multiple access technology for the future fifth generation (5G) communications. Due to the sparse nature, message passing algorithm (MPA) has been…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Xiangming Meng , Yiqun Wu , Yan Chen , Meng Cheng