One-Shot Messaging at Any Load Through Random Sub-Channeling in OFDM

09/22/2022
by   Gerhard Wunder, et al.
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Compressive Sensing has well boosted massive random access protocols over the last decade. In this paper we apply an orthogonal FFT basis as it is used in OFDM, but subdivide its image into so-called sub-channels and let each sub-channel take only a fraction of the load. In a random fashion the subdivision is consecutively applied over a suitable number of time-slots. Within the time-slots the users will not change their sub-channel assignment and send in parallel the data. Activity detection is carried out jointly across time-slots in each of the sub-channels. For such system design we derive three rather fundamental results: i) First, we prove that the subdivision can be driven to the extent that the activity in each sub-channel is sparse by design. An effect that we call sparsity capture effect. ii) Second, we prove that effectively the system can sustain any overload situation relative to the FFT dimension, i.e. detection failure of active and non-active users can be kept below any desired threshold regardless of the number of users. The only price to pay is delay, i.e. the number of time-slots over which cross-detection is performed. We achieve this by jointly exploring the effect of measure concentration in time and frequency and careful system parameter scaling. iii) Third, we prove that parallel to activity detection active users can carry one symbol per pilot resource and time-slot so it supports so-called one-shot messaging. The key to proving these results are new concentration results for sequences of randomly sub-sampled FFTs detecting the sparse vectors "en bloc". Eventually, we show by simulations that the system is scalable resulting in a coarsely 30-fold capacity increase compared to standard OFDM.

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