services on a grant-free channel consisting of radio access and backhaul segments. On the
radio access segment, IoT devices send packets to access points (APs) over an erasure
collision channel using the slotted ALOHA protocol. Then, the APs forward correctly received
messages to a base station (BS) over a shared wireless backhaul segment, modeled as an
erasure collision channel. The APs hence play the role of uncoordinated relays that provide …