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The multi-panel array, as a state-of-the-art antenna-in-package technology, is very suitable for millimeter-wave (mmWave)/terahertz (THz) systems, due to its low-cost deployment and scalable configuration. But in the context of nonuniform…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Hanlin Xiu , Zhen Gao , Anwen Liao , Yikun Mei , Dezhi Zheng , Shufeng Tan , Marco Di Renzo , Lajos Hanzo

Efficient and low-latency wireless connectivity between the base station (BS) and a sparse set of sporadically active devices from a massive number of devices is crucial for random access in emerging massive machine-type communications…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Jyotish Robin , Elza Erkip

To support the modern machine-type communications, a crucial task during the random access phase is device activity detection, which is to detect the active devices from a large number of potential devices based on the received signal at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Yang Li , Zhilin Chen , Yunqi Wang , Chenyang Yang , Yik-Chung Wu

The problem of uplink transmissions in massive connectivity is commonly dealt with using schemes for grant-free random access. When a large number of devices transmit almost synchronously, the receiver may not be able to resolve the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-09 Ao Chen , Wei Chen , Bo Ai , Petar Popovski

This paper investigates the massive random access for a huge amount of user devices served by a base station (BS) equipped with a massive number of antennas. We consider a grant-free unsourced random access (U-RA) scheme where all users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Xinyu Xie , Yongpeng Wu , Junyuan Gao , Wenjun Zhang

Resource allocation and multiple access schemes are instrumental for the success of communication networks, which facilitate seamless wireless connectivity among a growing population of uncoordinated and non-synchronized users. In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Sajad Daei , Saeed Razavikia , Marios Kountouris , Mikael Skoglund , Gabor Fodor , Carlo Fischione

We consider unsourced random access (uRA) in a cell-free (CF) user-centric wireless network, where a large number of potential users compete for a random access slot, while only a finite subset is active. The random access users transmit…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Burak Çakmak , Eleni Gkiouzepi , Manfred Opper , Giuseppe Caire

Most existing studies on joint activity detection and channel estimation for grant-free massive random access (RA) systems assume perfect synchronization among all active users, which is hard to achieve in practice. Therefore, this paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-23 Xinyu Bian , Yuyi Mao , Jun Zhang

Faced with the massive connection, sporadic transmission, and small-sized data packets in future cellular communication, a grant-free non-orthogonal random access (NORA) system is considered in this paper, which could reduce the access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Zhaoji Zhang , Ying Li , Chongwen Huang , Qinghua Guo , Chau Yuen , Yong Liang Guan

The Internet of Things paradigm heavily relies on a network of a massive number of machine-type devices (MTDs) that monitor various phenomena. Consequently, MTDs are randomly activated at different times whenever a change occurs. In…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Leatile Marata , Esa Ollila , Hirley Alves

The uncertainty of the sensing target brings great challenge to the beamforming design of the integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. To address this issue, we model the scattering coefficient and azimuth angle of the target as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-12 Zongyao Zhao , Zhenyu Liu , Wei Dai , Xinke Tang , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Yuhan Dong

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

In orthogonal frequency division modulation (OFDM) communication systems, channel state information (CSI) is required at receiver due to the fact that frequency-selective fading channel leads to disgusting inter-symbol interference (ISI)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-22 Guan Gui , Li Xu , Lin Shan , Fumiyuki Adachi

Massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC) is a key service category in the current generation of wireless networks featuring an extremely high density of energy and resource-limited devices with sparse and sporadic activity patterns. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jyotish Robin , Elza Erkip

This work studies the uplink of grant-free low data-rate massive machine-to-machine communications (mMTC) where devices are only active sporadically, which requires a joint activity and data detection at the receiver. We develop an adaptive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-01 R. B. Di Renna , R. C. de Lamare

Sparse code multiple access (SCMA) is a new multiple access technique which supports massive connectivity. Compared with the current Long Term Evolution (LTE) system, it enables the overloading of active users on limited orthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Chenchen Zhang , Yuan Luo , Yan Chen

This paper considers sparse device activity detection for cellular machine-type communications with non-orthogonal signatures using the approximate message passing algorithm. This paper compares two network architectures, massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Zhilin Chen , Foad Sohrabi , Wei Yu

Accurate channel estimation is a key requirement in extremely large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems. Sparse Bayesian learning (SBL) is a well-established framework for exploiting channel sparsity, but its performance…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Arttu Arjas , Italo Atzeni

Energy consumption is an important issue in continuous wireless telemonitoring of physiological signals. Compressed sensing (CS) is a promising framework to address it, due to its energy-efficient data compression procedure. However, most…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Zhilin Zhang , Tzyy-Ping Jung , Scott Makeig , Zhouyue Pi , Bhaskar D. Rao

A fundamental challenge of the large-scale Internet-of-Things lies in how to support massive machine-type communications (mMTC). This letter proposes a media modulation based mMTC solution for increasing the throughput, where a massive…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Li Qiao , Jun Zhang , Zhen Gao , Sheng Chen , Lajos Hanzo