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In this paper we focus on a feedback mechanism for unsourced random access (URA) communications. We propose an algorithm to construct feedback packets broadcasted to the users by the base station (BS) as well as the feedback packet format…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Murwan Bashir , Ehsan Nassaji , Dmitri Truhachev , Alireza Bayesteh , Monirosharieh Vameghestahbanati

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 (URA) is a particular form of grant-free uncoordinated random access wherein the users' identities are not associated to specific waveforms at the physical layer. Tensor-based modulation (TBM) has been recently…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Alberto Rech , Alexis Decurninge , Luis G. Ordóñez

Unsourced random access (URA) is a recently proposed communication paradigm attuned to machine-driven data transfers. In the original URA formulation, all the active devices share the same number of bits per packet. The scenario where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Allen Hao , Stefano Rini , Jean-Francois Chamberland

Current wireless networks are designed to optimize spectral efficiency for human users, who typically require sustained connections for high-data-rate applications like file transfers and video streaming. However, these networks are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Kirill Andreev , Pavel Rybin , Alexey Frolov

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

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

Unsourced random access (URA) is a recently proposed multiple access paradigm tailored to the uplink channel of machine-type communication networks. By exploiting a strong connection between URA and compressed sensing, the massive multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Jamison R. Ebert , Vamsi K. Amalladinne , Stefano Rini , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Krishna R. Narayanan

The core requirement of massive Machine-Type Communication (mMTC) is to support reliable and fast access for an enormous number of machine-type devices (MTDs). In many practical applications, the base station (BS) only concerns the list of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Jingze Che , Zhaoyang Zhang , Zhaohui Yang , Xiaoming Chen , Caijun Zhong , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

We investigate fully asynchronous unsourced random access (URA), and propose a high-performing scheme that employs on-off division multiple access (ODMA). In this scheme, active users distribute their data over the transmit block based on a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-16 Mert Ozates , Mohammad Kazemi , Gianluigi Liva , Deniz Gündüz

This paper investigates the unsourced random access (URA) problem with a massive multiple-input multiple-output receiver that serves wireless devices in the near-field of radiation. We employ an uncoupled transmission protocol without…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-26 Xinyu Xie , Yongpeng Wu , Jianping An , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chengwen Xing , Wenjun Zhang

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

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

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

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

This paper investigates the unsourced random access (URA) scheme to accommodate numerous machine-type users communicating to a base station equipped with multiple antennas. Existing works adopt a slotted transmission strategy to reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Xinyu Xie , Yongpeng Wu , Jianping An , Junyuan Gao , Wenjun Zhang , Chengwen Xing , Kai-Kit Wong , Chengshan Xiao

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

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

Unsourced random access (URA) has emerged as a candidate paradigm for massive machine-type communication (MTC) in next-generation wireless networks. While many excellent uplink schemes have been developed for URA, these schemes do not…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Jamison R. Ebert , Krishna R. Narayanan , Jean-Francois Chamberland

User authentication (UA) supports the receiver in deciding whether a message comes from the claimed transmitter or from an impersonating attacker. In cryptographic approaches messages are signed with either an asymmetric or symmetric key,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-17 Stefano Tomasin
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