Abstract
A distributed random access network with K users and one Access Point (AP) is considered. It is assumed that users and the AP are equipped with M and N antennas, respectively. Each user independently decides whether to transmit in a time slot or not. We initially focus on two-user random access networks and characterize the network average Degrees of Freedom (DoF)1. For the K-user networks, an upper-bound on the network average DoF is first proposed. Then, it is shown that the proposed upper-bound can be achieved using single stream data transmission for many network configurations. Finally, we show through a few examples that there exist some network configurations where multi-stream data transmission in conjunction with interference alignment is necessary in order to achieve the upper-bound.
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