Efficient Detectors for Joint Compressed Sensing Detection and Channel Decoding

In slotted random access of many nodes, multi-user detection (MUD) can be applied to handle collisions. One novel PHY layer approach for jointly detecting activity and data in such a setting is Compressed Sensing based Multi-User Detection (CS-MUD). In this paper, we first summarize previous investigations on CS-MUD and subsequently propose two novel solutions for problems which have not yet been fully addressed: Firstly, we improve on previous results, by introducing a new approach which incorporates the channel decoder into the Compressed Sensing (CS) detector. Secondly, we analyze the resource efficiency of CS-MUD by adapting phase diagrams known from CS literature to the application of sporadic communication.