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Grant-Free Massive Random Access With a Massive MIMO Receiver

11/30/2019
by   Alexander Fengler, et al.
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We consider the problem of unsourced random access (U-RA), a grant-free uncoordinated form of random access, in a wireless channel with a massive MIMO base station equipped with a large number M of antennas and a large number of wireless single-antenna devices (users). We consider a block fading channel model where the M-dimensional channel vector of each user remains constant over a coherence block containing L signal dimensions in time-frequency. In the considered setting, the number of potential users K_tot is much larger than L but at each time slot only K_a ≪ K_tot of them are active. Previous results, based on compressed sensing, require that K_a < L, which is a bottleneck in massive deployment scenarios such as Internet-of-Things and U-RA. In the context of activity detection it is known that such a limitation can be overcome when the number of base station antennas M is sufficiently large and a covariance based recovery algorithm is employed at the receiver. We show that, in the context of U-RA, the same concept allows to achieve high spectral efficiencies in the order of O(L log L), although at an exponentially growing complexity. We show also that a concatenated coding scheme can be used to reduce the complexity to an acceptable level while still achieving total spectral efficiencies in the order of O(L/log L).

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