Catalyzing random access at physical layer for Internet of Things: An intelligence enabled user signature code acquisition approach

Exploiting random access for the underlying connectivity provisioning has great potential to incorporate massive machine-type communication (MTC) devices in an Internet of Things (IoT) network. However, massive access attempts from versatile MTC devices may bring congestion to the IIoT network, thereby hindering service increasing of IIoT applications. In this paper, an intelligence enabled physical (PHY-)layer user signature code acquisition (USCA) algorithm is proposed to overcome the random access congestion problem with reduced signaling and control overhead. In the proposed scheme, the detector aims at approximating the optimal observation on both active user detection and user data reception by iteratively learning and predicting the convergence of the user signature codes that are in active. The cross-entropy based low-complexity iterative updating rule is present to guarantee that the proposed USCA algorithm is computational feasible. A closed-form bit error rate (BER) performance analysis is carried out to show the efficiency of the proposed intelligence USCA algorithm. Simulation results confirm that the proposed USCA algorithm provides an inherent tradeoff between performance and complexity and allows the detector achieves an approximate optimal performance with a reasonable computational complexity.