Title
Covariance-Based Joint Device Activity and Delay Detection in Asynchronous mMTC
Abstract
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 transmit their preassigned preamble sequences to the base station (BS) for device identification and delay detection. We first formulate this joint detection problem as a maximum likelihood estimation problem, which depends on the received signal only through its sample covariance, and then propose efficient coordinate descent type of algorithms to solve the formulated problem. Our proposed covariance-based approach is sharply different from the existing compressed sensing (CS) approach for the same problem. Numerical results show that our proposed covariance-based approach significantly outperforms the CS approach in terms of the detection performance since our proposed approach can make better use of the BS antennas than the CS approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/LSP.2022.3144853
IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Delays, Channel estimation, Signal processing algorithms, Synchronization, Protocols, Performance evaluation, Optimization, Asynchronous mMTC, coordinate descent, joint activity and delay detection, random access
Journal
29
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1070-9908
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhaorui Wang11093.66
Y. F. Liu245430.59
Liang Liu3110752.70