Pilot-based unsourced random access with a massive MIMO receiver, interference cancellation, and power control

A Fengler, O Musa, P Jung… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider the unsourced random access problem on a Rayleigh block-fading AWGN
channel with multiple receive antennas. Specifically, we treat the slow fading scenario …

Asynchronous activity detection for cell-free massive MIMO: From centralized to distributed algorithms

Y Li, Q Lin, YF Liu, B Ai, YC Wu - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Device activity detection in the emerging cell-free massive multiple-input multiple-output
(MIMO) systems has been recognized as a crucial task in machine-type communications, in …

Deep learning-based user activity detection and channel estimation in grant-free NOMA

H Yu, Z Fei, Z Zheng, N Ye… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the uplink machine-type communication (MTC) system, a combination of grant-free
transmission and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) emerges to reduce the control …

Massive unsourced random access: Exploiting angular domain sparsity

X Xie, Y Wu, J An, J Gao, W Zhang… - IEEE transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the unsourced random access (URA) scheme to accommodate
numerous machine-type users communicating to a base station equipped with multiple …

Sparsity constrained joint activity and data detection for massive access: A difference-of-norms penalty framework

Q Lin, Y Li, YC Wu - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Grant-free random access is a promising mechanism to support modern massive machine-
type communications in which devices are sporadically active with small payloads. Under …

Covariance-based joint device activity and delay detection in asynchronous mMTC

Z Wang, YF Liu, L Liu - IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this letter, we study the joint device activity and delay detection problem in asynchronous
massive machine-type communications (mMTC), where all active devices asynchronously …

Unsourced random massive access with beam-space tree decoding

J Che, Z Zhang, Z Yang, X Chen… - IEEE Journal on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
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 …

Model-based deep learning for joint activity detection and channel estimation in massive and sporadic connectivity

J Johnston, X Wang - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present two model-based neural network architectures purposed for sporadic user
detection and channel estimation in massive machine-type communications. In the scenario …

Two-stage channel estimation approach for cell-free IoT with massive random access

X Wang, A Ashikhmin, Z Dong… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate the activity detection and channel estimation issues for cell-free Internet of
Things (IoT) networks with massive random access. In each time slot, only partial devices …

Massive connectivity over MIMO-OFDM: Joint activity detection and channel estimation with frequency selectivity compensation

W Jiang, M Yue, X Yuan, Y Zuo - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we study how to efficiently and reliably detect active devices and estimate their
channels in a multiple-input multiple-output orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing …