One of the main difficulties to enable the future scaling of IoT networks is the issue of
massive connectivity. Recently, Modern Random Access protocols have emerged as a …

Irregular Repetition Slotted Aloha (IRSA) is one candidate member of a family of random
access-based protocols to solve massive connectivity problem for Internet of Things (IoT) …

The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to connect billions of devices, most of which are power and
memory-constrained. Such constraints require efficient network access.“Irregular Repetition …

Irregular Repetition Slotted Aloha (IRSA) is one candidate member of a family of random
access protocols to provide solutions for massive parallel connections in the Internet of …

Wireless communications play an important part in the systems of the Internet of Things
(IoT). Recently, there has been a trend towards long-range communications systems for IoT …

Abstract Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Data Collection networks form an integral part of the
internet of things wherein a Data Collector (DC) collects data from a large number of nodes …

In an Internet of Things (IoT) network, heterogeneous users with different priorities and
service requirements will co-exist. This makes scheduling access to the shared …

Due to infrequent and massive concurrent access requests from the ever-increasing number
of machine-type communication (MTC) devices, the existing contention-based random …

This work aims to design protocol sequences through deep reinforcement learning (DRL).
Protocol sequences are periodic binary sequences that define multiple access control …

Automation is a key part of the new industrial revolution, that will be enabled by the
deployment of thousands of sensors and actuators. The flexible deployment of these devices …