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This paper considers uplink multiple access (MA) transmissions, where the MA technique is adaptively selected between Non Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) and Orthogonal Multiple Access (OMA). Two types of users, namely Internet of Things…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-29 Zijian Wang , Mylene Pischella , Luc Vandendorpe

In Internet of Things (IoTs), the freshness of system status information is crucial for real-time monitoring and decision-making. This paper studies the transmission scheduling problem in wireless monitoring systems, where information…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yuchong Zhang , Yi Cao , Xianghui Cao

This paper introduces a novel power allocation and subcarrier optimization algorithm tailored for fixed wireless access (FWA) networks operating under low-rank channel conditions, where the number of subscriber antennas far exceeds those at…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Kamyar Rajabalifardi , Sagnik Bhattacharya , Mehrnaz Afshang , Mohammad Mozaffari , John M. Cioffi

Emerging applications such as autonomous driving and industrial automation demand ultra-reliable and low-latency communication (URLLC), where maintaining fresh and timely information is critical. A key performance metric in such systems is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-27 Maryam Ansarifard , Mohit K. Sharma , Kishor C. Joshi , George Exarchakos

In this paper, a novel joint design of beamforming and power allocation is proposed for a multi-cell multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network. In this network, base stations (BSs) adopt…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Xiaofang Sun , Nan Yang , Shihao Yan , Zhiguo Ding , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Chao Shen , Zhangdui Zhong

We consider a scheduling problem pertinent to a base station (BS) that serves heterogeneous users (UEs). We focus on a downlink model, with users that are either interested in large throughput, low latency (the time difference between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Kumar Saurav , Ashok Kumar Reddy Chavva

Network capacity calls for significant increase for 5G cellular systems. A promising multi-user access scheme, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) with successive interference cancellation (SIC), is currently under consideration. In NOMA,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Lei Lei , Di Yuan , Chin Keong Ho , Sumei Sun

This work introduces downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) into short-packet communications. NOMA has great potential to improve fairness and spectral efficiency with respect to orthogonal multiple access (OMA) for low-latency…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Xiaofang Sun , Shihao Yan , Nan Yang , Zhiguo Ding , Chao Shen , Zhangdui Zhong

OWC has been considered as a key enabling technology to unlock unprecedented speeds of communication, supporting high demands of data traffic. In this paper, infrared lasers are used as optical transmitters operating in an indoor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Ahmad Adnan Qidan , Taisir El-Gorashi , Majid Safari , Harald Haas , Richard V. Penty , Ian H. White , Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani

In this work, we study age-optimal scheduling with stability constraints in a multiple access channel with two heterogeneous source nodes transmitting to a common destination. The first node is connected to a power grid and it has randomly…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Zheng Chen , Nikolaos Pappas , Emil Björnson , Erik G. Larsson

The Version Age of Information (VAoI) quantifies information freshness by measuring the number of versions the receiver lags behind. This paper studies VAoI minimization in an $M$-user uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Gangadhar Karevvanavar , Rajshekhar V. Bhat , Nikolaos Pappas

In this paper, a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) based downlink vehicle-to-infrastructure network is considered. Particularly, we focus on the specific case of two users, one of which requires reliable road-safety-critical data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Chongtao Guo , Bin Liao

It is becoming increasingly clear that an important task for wireless networks is to minimize the age of information (AoI), i.e., the timeliness of information delivery. While mainstream approaches generally rely on the real-time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Bin Han , Yao Zhu , Zhiyuan Jiang , Muxia Sun , Hans D. Schotten

This paper investigates movable antenna (MA) aided non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) for multi-user downlink communication, where the base station (BS) is equipped with a fixed-position antenna (FPA) array to serve multiple MA-enabled…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Zhenyu Xiao , Zhe Li , Lipeng Zhu , Boyu Ning , Daniel Benevides da Costa , Xiang-Gen Xia , Rui Zhang

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been identified as a promising technology for future wireless systems due to its performance gains in spectral efficiency when compared to conventional orthogonal schemes (OMA). This gain can be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Onel L. A. López , Hirley Alves , Matti Latva-aho

Delta-orthogonal multiple access (D-OMA) has been recently investigated as a potential technique to enhance the spectral efficiency in the sixth-generation (6G) networks. D-OMA enables partial overlapping of the adjacent sub-channels that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ramin Hashemi , Hamzeh Beyranvand , Mohammad Robat Mili , Ata Khalili , Hina Tabassum , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Dense indoor WLANs increasingly rely on multiple access points (APs) operating over partially overlapping spectrum to support latency-sensitive applications. In such deployments, simultaneous transmissions across APs create co-channel and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ananth Ram Rajagopalan , Jiahui Ni , Vishrant Tripathi

This paper investigates a novel communication paradigm employing movable antennas (MAs) within a multiple-input single-output (MISO) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) downlink framework, where users are equipped with MAs. Initially,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Yufeng Zhou , Wen Chen , Qingqing Wu , Xusheng Zhu , Nan Cheng

Motivated by cooperative distributed networks in which users dynamically alternate between transmit and receive modes under half-duplex constraints, this paper studies the Age of Information (AoI) in a distributed multi-user network using…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Peng Zou , Ali Maatouk , Egemen Erbayat , Suresh Subramaniam

Despite numerous advantages, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique can bring additional interference for the neighboring ultra-dense networks if the power consumption of the system is not properly optimized. While targeting on the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Rukhsana Ruby , Shuxin Zhong , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Kaishun Wu , Victor C. M. Leung