Everything about Random-access channel

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Random-access channelA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Joint Device Detection, Channel Estimation, and Data Decoding With Collision Resolution for MIMO Massive Unsourced Random AccessInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Computer networkingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Exploiting decentralized channel state information for random accessCited 157 times
5. Go sideways: Time-division multiple accessA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Channel access methodA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Exploiting decentralized channel state information for random access

  S. Adireddy, L. Tong · 2005 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 157 citations

• Optimal decentralized control in the random access multipacket channel

  S. Ghez, S. Verdu, S.C. Schwartz · 1989 · IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control · 134 citations

• Optimization of Random Access Channel in NB-IoT

  Ruki Harwahyu, Ray-Guang Cheng, Chia-Hung Wei · 2018 · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 84 citations

• Random Signal Levels for Channel Access in Packet Broadcast Networks

  C. Lee · 1987 · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 65 citations

• A new universal random coding bound for the multiple-access channel

  Yu-Sun Liu, B.L. Hughes · 1996 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 57 citations

• A distributed queueing random access protocol for a broadcast channel

  Wenxin Xu, Graham Campbell · 1993 · ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review · 35 citations

• Analysis of power ramping schemes for UTRA-FDD random access channel

  Yang Yang, T.-S.P. Yum · 2005 · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications · 32 citations

• Random Access Channel Coding in the Finite Blocklength Regime

  Recep Can Yavas, Victoria Kostina, Michelle Effros · 2021 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 30 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Joint Device Detection, Channel Estimation, and Data Decoding With Collision Resolution for MIMO Massive Unsourced Random Access

  Tianya Li, Yongpeng Wu, Mengfan Zheng · 2022 · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 46 citations

• Joint Activity Detection, Channel Estimation, and Data Decoding for Grant-Free Massive Random Access

  Xinyu Bian, Yuyi Mao, Jun Zhang · 2023 · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 30 citations

• Two-Stage Channel Estimation Approach for Cell-Free IoT With Massive Random Access

  Xinhua Wang, Alexei Ashikhmin, Zhicheng Dong · 2022 · IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications · 28 citations

• Joint Message Detection and Channel Estimation for Unsourced Random Access in Cell-Free User-Centric Wireless Networks

  Burak Çakmak, Eleni Gkiouzepi, Manfred Opper · 2025 · IEEE Transactions on Information Theory · 18 citations

• Random Access Protocol With Channel Oracle Enabled by a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface

  Victor Croisfelt, Fabio Saggese, Israel Leyva-Mayorga · 2023 · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications · 16 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Computer networkingJames F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross · 1900
• The web application hacker's handbookDafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto · 2007
• The Conspirators HierarchyJohn Coleman · 1992
• Emerging Technologies for Information Systems, Computing, and ManagementW. Eric Wong · 2013
• Smart Card Research and Advanced ApplicationsStefan Mangard · 2013
• AI 2012: Advances in Artificial IntelligenceMichael Thielscher · 2012
• Advances in Computing, Communication, and ControlSrija Unnikrishnan · 2013
• 📕Signal detection in a multi-user random access channelClifton C. Lovell · 1971

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