Grant-free Rateless Multiple Access: A Novel Massive Access Scheme for Internet of Things

Abstract

Rateless Multiple Access (RMA) is a novel non-orthogonal multiple access framework that is promising for massive access in Internet of Things (IoT) due to its high efficiency and low complexity. In the framework, after certain \emph{registration}, each active user respectively transmits to the access point (AP) randomly based on an assigned random access control function (RACf) until receiving an acknowledgement (ACK). In this work, by exploiting the intrinsic access pattern of each user, we propose a grant-free RMA scheme, which no longer needs the registration process as in the original RMA, thus greatly reduces the signalling overhead and system latency. Furthermore, we propose a low-complexity joint iterative detection and decoding algorithm in which the channel estimation, active user detection, and information decoding are done simultaneously. Finally, we propose a method based on density evolution (DE) to evaluate the system performance.

Accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Letters

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