Unsourced random access using multiple stages of orthogonal pilots: MIMO and single-antenna structures
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Author(s)
Ahmadi, Mohammad Javad
Kazemi, Mohammad
Duman, Tolga M
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We study the problem of unsourced random access (URA) over Rayleigh block-fading channels with a receiver equipped with multiple antennas. We propose a slotted structure with multiple stages of orthogonal pilots, each of which is randomly picked from a codebook. In the proposed signaling structure, each user encodes its message using a polar code and appends it to the selected pilot sequences to construct its transmitted signal. Accordingly, the transmitted signal is composed of multiple orthogonal pilot parts and a polar-coded part, which is sent through a randomly selected slot. The performance of the proposed scheme is further improved by randomly dividing users into different groups each having a unique interleaver-power pair. We also apply the idea of multiple stages of orthogonal pilots to the case of a single receive antenna. In all the set-ups, we use an iterative approach for decoding the transmitted messages along with a suitable successive interference cancellation technique. The use of orthogonal pilots and the slotted structure lead to improved accuracy and reduced computational complexity in the proposed set-ups, and make the implementation with short blocklengths more viable. Performance of the proposed set-ups is illustrated via extensive simulation results which show that the proposed set-ups with multiple antennas perform better than the existing MIMO URA solutions for both short and large blocklengths, and that the proposed single-antenna set-ups are superior to the existing single-antenna URA schemes.
Date Issued
2024-02
Date Acceptance
2023-06-06
Citation
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2024, 23 (2), pp.1343-1355
ISSN
1536-1276
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Start Page
1343
End Page
1355
Journal / Book Title
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Volume
23
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
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Identifier
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10167497
Subjects
CODES
Engineering
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
massive MIMO
MASSIVE RANDOM-ACCESS
orthogonal pilots
pilot detection
power diversity
Science & Technology
Technology
Telecommunications
the Internet of Things (IoT)
Unsourced random access (URA)
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2023-06-27