Artificial intelligence for satellite communication and non-terrestrial networks: A survey

G Fontanesi, F Ortíz, E Lagunas, VM Baeza… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper surveys the application and development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Satellite
Communication (SatCom) and Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN). We first present a …

Distributed Q-learning aided uplink grant-free NOMA for massive machine-type communications

J Liu, Z Shi, S Zhang, N Kato - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The explosive growth of machine-type communications (MTC) devices poses critical
challenges to the existing cellular networks. Therefore, how to support massive MTC devices …

Multi-agent DRL approach for energy-efficient resource allocation in URLLC-enabled grant-free NOMA systems

DD Tran, SK Sharma, VN Ha… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access (GF-NOMA) has emerged as a promising access
technology for the fifth generation and beyond wireless networks that enable ultra-reliable …

Optimization of grant-free NOMA with multiple configured-grants for mURLLC

Y Liu, Y Deng, M Elkashlan… - IEEE Journal on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Massive Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications (mURLLC), which integrates
URLLC with massive access, is emerging as a new and important service class in the next …

Massive connectivity with machine learning for the Internet of Things

A Balcı, R Sokullu - Computer Networks, 2021 - Elsevier
Driven by the need to ensure the connectivity of an unprecedentedly huge number of IoT
devices with no human intervention the issues of massive connectivity have recently …

A survey on NB-IoT random access: approaches for uplink radio access network congestion management

L Iiyambo, G Hancke, AM Abu-Mahfouz - IEEE Access, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is one of the most promising technologies for
enabling reliable communication among low-power, and low cost devices present in …

Fairness aware deep reinforcement learning for grant-free NOMA-IoT networks

A Balcı, R Sokullu - Internet of Things, 2024 - Elsevier
Next generation networks have special areas related with the Internet of Things (IoT) to
improve the performance of cellular networks in terms of throughput. Grant-free non …

A novel NOMA-enhanced SDT scheme for NR RedCap in 5G/B5G systems

Z Shi, J Liu - IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, Reduced Capability (RedCap) New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE), which has
smaller cost, lower complexity, and longer battery life than normal NR UE, was introduced by …

A learning-based fast uplink grant for massive IoT via support vector machines and long short-term memory

E Eldeeb, M Shehab, H Alves - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The current random access (RA) allocation techniques suffer from congestion and high
signaling overhead while serving massive machine-type communication (mMTC) …

Q-learning NOMA random access for IoT-satellite terrestrial relay networks

DA Tubiana, J Farhat, G Brante… - IEEE Wireless …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We consider an IoT-satellite terrestrial relay network providing access for a massive quantity
of IoT devices. In order to overcome the difficulties associated with random access over ultra …