Signal Processing and Communications Group

Multiple Access and Physical Layer Techniques for Next Generation Networks (MAYTE) - 1

 

Acronym:    MAYTE
Code:    PID2022-136512OB-C21
Funder:    Spanish Government - AGENCIA ESTATAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN (AEI) - MINISTERIO DE CIENCIA, INNOVACIÓN y UNIVERSIDADES (MICIU) and ERDF/EU  (European Union)
Start date:    2023 September 1st
End date:    2026 August 31st
Keywords: Spectral Efficiency, Multiple Access, Interference Management, Multiantenna Terminals, NOMA, Low Latency, Multicarrier Communications, Full-duplex, Next Generation Networks

SPCOM Participants: Meritxell Lamarca Orozco, Carlos Alejandro López Molina, Aniol Martí Espelt, Francesc Rey Micolau, Jaume Riba Sagarra, Josep Sala Alvarez, Gregori Vazquez Grau, Marc Vilà Insa, N. Javier Villares Piera

SPCOM Principal Investigator:  Josep Sala Alvarez

Partners: Universidad de Vigo, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya


This work has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities through project

MAYTE (PID2022-136512OB-C21,  MICIU / AEI / 10.13039/501100011033 and by ERDF/EU

(Formerly: This work has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through project

MAYTE (PID2022-136512OB-C21,  MCIN / AEI / 10.13039/501100011033 and "ERDF: A Way of Making Europe" (EU))

 

Summary

Next-generation multi-user communication systems are expected to provide considerable gains in the performance space with respect to current telecommunication infrastructure. To cite but a few aspects, they shall have the capacity in fixed and high-mobility scenarios to efficiently handle a large number of users (human or machine) with disparate data rates, different activity patterns, or varying latency and quality of service, as well as the capability to operate under internetwork interference, in user overloaded regimes or to control signal formats to fulfil diverse performance criteria. The coordinated project MAYTE will contribute to the picture above through two complementary objectives. Firstly, to develop suitable signal designs for next-generation networks oriented toward the optimization of key performance indicators. Three research sublines will be considered under this scope: (i) efficient optimization of the spectral properties of precoded MIMO communication waveforms for advanced signals such as orthogonal time-frequency-space (OTFS) to improve system co-existence in terms of out-of band radiation; (ii) design and optimization of next-generation multiple-access (NGMA) based on multiple-antenna signaling schemes for interference-resistant dense networks with a large number of users ; and (iii) optimization of ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) schemes based on short packet design. Secondly, to design and optimize signal and information processing schemes and tools for interference management and data analysis in next-generation networks. Three research sublines will be considered under this scope: (i) efficient design of multiple-antenna interference cancellation and interference-resistant schemes at the receiver side and development of asymptotic analyses; (ii) development and implementation of signal processing techniques to manage self-interference under simultaneous transmission and reception to improve spectral efficiency and reduce transmission latency; and (iii) to develop tools for informative learning from data beyond second order statistics toward improved signal processing algorithms and performance evaluation in communication networks.

Workplan

 

Doctoral Theses

Carlos Alejandro López Molina (advisor: Jaume Riba Sagarra), "On the majorization-minimization framework and g-convex optimization: exploiting diversity using sparse-aware and information theoretic criteria", Prospective Defense Date: April 22nd 2025.

Publications

Project publications at UPC repository: https://futur.upc.edu/37257104

General UPC repository: https://futur.upc.edu

(some publications may not have been uploaded yet to the UPC repository. See below the project's complete early acces list to date)

Complete list of project publications by year:

YEAR 2025

A. Martí, L. Sanguinetti, M. Lamarca and J. RIba, "Harnessing Wavefront Curvature and Spatial Correlation in Noncoherent MIMO Communications", submitted to IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. ARXIV URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18000

M. Vilà-Insa and J. Riba Sagarra, "Singular Detection in Noncoherent Communications", accepted in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, DOI 10.1109/LWC.2025.3536921, ARXIV URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.15887.

YEAR 2024

C. A. Lopez and J. Riba, "Parametric Minimum Error Entropy Criterion: A Case Study in Blind Sensor Fusion and Regression Problems," in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 72, pp. 5091-5106, 2024, doi: 10.1109/TSP.2024.3488554. UPC URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/421750, IEEE URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10738454

J. Borras and G. Vazquez, "Array Geometry-Invariant Space-Time Opportunistic Null-Space Communications," in IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 82220-82234, 2024, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3395168. UPC URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/411567, IEEE URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10510295.

M. Vilà-Insa and J. Riba, "A Cyclostationary Perspective on Noncoherent SIMO Communications," 2024 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC'24), Lucca, Italy, 2024, pp. 71-75, doi: 10.1109/SPAWC60668.2024.10694468. Poster Presentation; UPC URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/420834, IEEE URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10694468

A. Martí, M. Vilà-Insa, J. Riba and M. Lamarca, "Constellation Design for Quadratic Detection in Noncoherent Massive SIMO Communications," 2024 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC'24), Lucca, Italy, 2024, pp. 566-570, doi: 10.1109/SPAWC60668.2024.10694142. Poster Presentation; UPC URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/420586, IEEE URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10694142

A. Martí, J. Riba, M. Lamarca and X. Gràcia, "Asymptotic Analysis of Near-Field Coupling in Massive MISO and Massive SIMO Systems," in IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 1929-1933, Aug. 2024, doi: 10.1109/LCOMM.2024.3416044. UPC URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/410573; ARXIV URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04786; IEEE URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10559808.

Y. El Kaisi, J. Villares, O. Muñoz, "Novel Radio Frame Design for Efficient Integration of Wireless Links Into Time-Sensitive Networks", 2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'24), Valencia (SPAIN), Sept 2nd - Sept. 5th 2024. Conference Presentation;  Paper.

K. Hussain, R. López-Valcarce, F. Rey, J. Sala-Alvarez and J. Villares, "Sidelobe Suppression for Multicarrier Signals via Structured Spectral Precoding," in IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 72, no. 6, pp. 3155-3168, June 2024, doi: 10.1109/TCOMM.2024.3357429. UPC URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/405505; UPC Futur URL: https://futur.upc.edu/37971617

M. Vilà-Insa, A. Martí, J. Riba and M. Lamarca, "Quadratic Detection in Noncoherent Massive SIMO Systems over Correlated Channels," in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, doi: 10.1109/TWC.2024.3411164. UPC URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/410572; ARXIV URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15030; IEEE URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10558756

C. A. Lopez and J. Riba, "On the Convergence of Block Majorization-Minimization Algorithms on the Grassmann Manifold," in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 31, pp. 1314-1318, 2024, doi: 10.1109/LSP.2024.3396660. UPC URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/416725; IEEE URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10518081

YEAR 2023

C. A. Lopez, F. de Cabrera and J. Riba, "Minimum Error Entropy Estimation Under Contaminated Gaussian Noise," in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 30, pp. 1457-1461, 2023, doi: 10.1109/LSP.2023.3324295. UPC URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2117/402620; UPC Futur URL: https://futur.upc.edu/37761218 

Conference Presentations

YEAR 2024

A. Martí, J. Riba, M. Lamarca, X. Gràcia, "Asymptotic analysis of near-field coupling in massive MISO and massive SIMO systems". IEEE Spanish Section Machine Learning, Information Theory, Signal Processing and Communications Workshop (MISC'24), July 2nd, 2024, Madrid . Poster Presentation.

C.A. López, J. Riba, "Block MM algorithm on the Grassmann manifold and its applications". IEEE Spanish Section Machine Learning, Information Theory, Signal Processing and Communications Workshop (MISC'24), July 2nd, 2024, Madrid . Poster presentation

M. Vila, A.Martí, J. Riba, M. Lamarca, "Quadratic Detection in Noncoherent Massive SIMO Systems over Correlated Channels". IEEE Spanish Section Machine Learning, Information Theory, Signal Processing and Communications Workshop (MISC'24), July 2nd, 2024, Madrid. Poster Presentation

A.Martí, F. de Cabrera, J.Riba, "On the Estimation of Tsallis Entropy and a Novel Information Measure based on its Properties", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Spech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024), 14-19 April 2024, Seoul (Corea). Poster Presentation.

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