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In this paper, we consider an aerial reconfigurable intelligent surface (ARIS)-assisted wireless network, where multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) collect data from ground users (GUs) by using the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Songhan Zhao , Shimin Gong , Bo Gu , Lanhua Li , Bin Lyu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Changyan Yi

In this work, we explore the potential benefits of deploying unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as aerial base stations (ABSs) with sub-6GHz band and small cells terrestrial base stations (TBSs) with millimeter wave (mmWave) band in a hybrid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Cunzhuo Zhao , Yuanwei Liu , Yunlong Cai , Minjian Zhao , Zhiguo Ding

Recently, interest on the utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has aroused. Specifically, UAVs can be used in cellular networks as aerial users for delivery, surveillance, rescue search, or as an aerial base station (aBS) for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-20 Wael Jaafar , Shimaa Naser , Sami Muhaidat , Paschalis C. Sofotasios , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a promising multiple access technique for beyond fifth generation (B5G) cellular wireless networks, where several users can be served on a single time-frequency resource block, using the concepts of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-04 Mehdi Monemi , Hina Tabassum , Ramein Zahedi

By combining the concepts of superposition coding at the transmitter(s) and successive interference cancellation (SIC) at the receiver(s), non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has recently emerged as a promising multiple access technique…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-08-23 Hina Tabassum , Md Shipon Ali , Ekram Hossain , Md. Jahangir Hossain , Dong In Kim

In this paper, we investigate the combination of two key enabling technologies for the fifth generation (5G) wireless mobile communication, namely millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-17 Lipeng Zhu , Jun Zhang , Zhenyu Xiao , Xianbin Cao , Dapeng Oliver Wu , Xiang-Gen Xia

In this paper we consider a collection of single-antenna ground nodes communicating with a multi-antenna unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over a multiple-access ground-to-air wireless communications link. The UAV uses beamforming to mitigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Feng Jiang , A. Lee Swindlehurst

The line-of-sight (LoS) air-to-ground channel brings both opportunities and challenges in cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. On one hand, the LoS channels make more cellular base stations (BSs) visible to a UAV…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Weidong Mei , Qingqing Wu , Rui Zhang

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are set to feature heavily in upcoming fifth generation (5G) networks. Yet, the adoption of multi-UAV networks means that spectrum scarcity in UAV communications is an issue in need of urgent solutions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Tan Zheng Hui Ernest , A S Madhukumar , Rajendra Prasad Sirigina , Anoop Kumar Krishna

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) is a promising technology for enabling cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications in the future. Equipped with full-dimensional large arrays, ground base stations (GBSs) can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Yi Huang , Qingqing Wu , Rui Lu , Xiaoming Peng , Rui Zhang

Integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technology can perform better in $5$G communication systems. To guarantee the fairness of communication services for the sensor nodes deployed in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Xindi Wang

Though the concept of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) was proposed several years ago, the performance of uplink NOMA has only been verified in theory, but not in practice. This paper presents an over-the-air implementation of a uplink…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Samith Abeywickrama , Lei Liu , Yuhao Chi , Chau Yuen

In this paper, we propose a novel adaptive decoding mechanism (ADM) for the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled uplink (UL) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communications. Specifically, considering a harsh UAV environment, where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Thanh Luan Nguyen , Georges Kaddoum , Tri Nhu Do , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Zygmunt J. Haas

In order to bolster future wireless networks, there has been a great deal of interest in non-terrestrial networks, especially aerial platforms including high-altitude platform stations (HAPS) and uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs). These…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-18 Faical Khennoufa , Khelil Abdellatif , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Metin Ozturk , Taissir Elganimi , Ferdi Kara , Khaled Rabie

This paper investigates the performance of downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communication in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks enhanced by partitionable reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs). We analyze three types…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Masoud Ghazikor , Van Ly Nguyen , Morteza Hashemi

Cellular-connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has attracted a surge of research interest in both academia and industry. To support aerial user equipment (UEs) in the existing cellular networks, one promising approach is to assign a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Xuesong Cai , István Z. Kovács , Jeroen Wigard , Rafhael Amorim , Fredrik Tufvesson , Preben E. Mogensen

In this paper, we propose a new resource allocation framework for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assisted multicast wireless networks in which the network users according to their request are divided into several multicast groups. We adopt…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-15 Shima Salarhosseini , Mohammad Reza Javan , Ali Nazari

In this letter, we study multiuser communication systems enabled by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is equipped with a directional antenna of adjustable beamwidth. We propose a fly-hover-and-communicate protocol where the ground…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-08 Haiyun He , Shuowen Zhang , Yong Zeng , Rui Zhang

In this paper, we study the integration between the coordinated multipoint (CoMP) transmission and the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in the downlink cellular-connected UAV networks with the coexistence of aerial users (AUs) and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Hongguang Sun , Linyi Zhang , Tony Q. S. Quek , Xijun Wang , Yan Zhang

Fifth Generation (5G) cellular networks are expected to provide cellular connectivity for vehicular users, including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). When flying in the air, these users experience strong, unobstructed channel conditions to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Boris Galkin , Ramy Amer , Erika Fonseca , Luiz A. DaSilva