Abstract
Aiming at the problem of access delay caused by the contention of
resource requests from a large-scale distributed Unmanned aerial vehicle
(UAV) network leading to unavoidable conflicts, we propose a grant-free
access scheme based on the prediction channel. Specifically, we spread
the transmit signals over multiple subcarriers by spreading the
frequency, and summaries the signal detection problem for grant -free
access as a multi-measurement vector (MMV) compression sensing problem.
The channel is estimated based on beacon, and the orthogonal
approximation message passing (OAMP)-MMV algorithm is used. Sparsity
ratio and noise variance are learnt using variational inference (VI).
Finally, the likelihood ratio (LLR) is used to identify the active
nodes. Simulation results verify that the proposed scheme outperforms
various baseline schemes and achieves low-latency and highly reliable
random access.