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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

This work introduces downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) into short-packet communications. NOMA has great potential to improve fairness and spectral efficiency with respect to orthogonal multiple access (OMA) for low-latency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Xiaofang Sun , Shihao Yan , Nan Yang , Zhiguo Ding , Chao Shen , Zhangdui Zhong

Grant-free random access and uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) have been introduced to reduce transmission latency and signaling overhead in massive machine-type communication (mMTC). In this paper, we propose two novel…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Thushan Sivalingam , Samad Ali , Nurul Huda Mahmood , Nandana Rajatheva , Matti Latva-Aho

Multi-access edge computing (MEC) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) have been regarded as promising technologies to improve computation capability and offloading efficiency of the mobile devices in the sixth generation (6G) mobile…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Haodong Li , Fang Fang , Zhiguo Ding

Rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) are the key enabling multiple access techniques to enable massive connectivity. However, it is unclear whether RSMA would consistently outperform NOMA from a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Mohammad Amin Saeidi , Hina Tabassum

Rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) is one of the most promising techniques for ultra-reliable and low-latency communications (URLLC) with stringent requirements on delay and reliability of multiple access. To fully explore the delay…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yixin Zhang , Wenchi Cheng , Jingqing Wang , Wei Zhang

In this paper, we study resource allocation algorithm design for secure multi-user downlink ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC). To enhance physical layer security (PLS), the base station (BS) is equipped with multiple antennas…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Walid R. Ghanem , Vahid Jamali , Robert Schober

Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) in which the signature code assignment to users contains a random element has recently become a cornerstone of CDMA research. The random element in the construction is particularly attractive in that it…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-06-23 Jack Raymond , David Saad

Considering a heterogeneous network (HetNet) where both macro base station (BS) and small cell (SC) nodes are equipped with massive antennas, this paper studies the performance for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlinks when the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-15 Yongyu Dai , Xiaodai Dong , Hai Lin

In random-access communication systems, the number of active users varies with time, and has considerable bearing on receiver's performance. Thus, techniques aimed at identifying not only the information transmitted, but also that number,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Ezio Biglieri , Marco Lops

In beam-based massive multiple-input multiple-output systems, signals are processed spatially in the radio-frequency (RF) front-end and thereby the number of RF chains can be reduced to save hardware cost, power consumptions and pilot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Zhiyuan Jiang , Sheng Chen , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

IEEE 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) introduced Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), which enables simultaneous transmissions through centralized resource allocation. However, effective uplink scheduling requires the Access Point (AP)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Douglas Dziedzorm Agbeve , Andrey Belogaev , Chris Blondia , Jeroen Famaey

This paper investigates the fundamental limits of information-theoretic decentralized secure aggregation (DSA) with user dropouts. We consider a fully decentralized network where $K$ users communicate over broadcast channels without a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhou Li , Xiang Zhang , Yizhou Zhao , Han Yu , Giuseppe Caire

Rate splitting (RS) is a potentially powerful and flexible technique for multi-antenna downlink transmission. In this paper, we address several technical challenges towards its practical implementation for beyond 5G systems. To this end, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Zheng Li , Chencheng Ye , Ying Cui , Sheng Yang , Shlomo Shamai

In this work, we present new results for the application of rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) to the downlink (DL) of a massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MaMIMO) system operating in frequency-division-duplex (FDD) mode. Due to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Donia Ben Amor , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

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 propose an improvement of the random spreading approach with polar codes for unsourced multiple access. Each user encodes its message by a polar code, and the coded bits are then spread using a random spreading sequence. The proposed…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Mohammad Javad Ahmadi , Tolga M. Duman

In this letter, the performance of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is investigated in a cellular downlink scenario with randomly deployed users. The developed analytical results show that NOMA can achieve superior performance in terms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Zhiguo Ding , Zheng Yang , Pingzhi Fan , H. Vincent Poor

We study the Gaussian multiple access channel with random user activity, in the regime where the number of users is proportional to the code length. The receiver may know some statistics about the number of active users, but does not know…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xiaoqi Liu , Pablo Pascual Cobo , Ramji Venkataramanan

We study the planning of a rural 5G multi-user massive MIMO fixed wireless access system to offer fixed broadband service to homes. Specifically, we aim to determine the user limit, i.e., the maximum number of homes that can simultaneously…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Andrew Lappalainen , Yuhao Zhang , Catherine Rosenberg