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Hiding the wireless communication by transmitter Alice to intended receiver Bob from a capable and attentive adversary Willie has been widely studied under the moniker "covert communications". However, when such covert communication is done…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Ali Mohammadi Teshnizi , Majid Ghaderi , Dennis Goeckel

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising technology to improve the performance of wireless powered communication networks (WPCNs) due to its capability to reconfigure signal propagation environments via smart reflection. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Qingqing Wu , Xiaobo Zhou , Robert Schober

Covert communications, also referred to as low probability of detection (LPD) communications, provide a higher level of privacy protection than cryptography and physical-layer security (PLS) by hiding transmissions in the ambient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Luyao Sun , Huan Huang , Yongxing Song , Zhongxing Tian , Hongliang Zhang , Weidong Mei , Dongdong Zou , Yi Cai

By activating blocked users and altering successive interference cancellation (SIC) sequences, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) become promising for enhancing non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems. This work investigates…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-25 Chao Zhang , Wenqiang Yi , Yuanwei Liu , Zhijin Qin , Kok Keong Chai

In this paper, we consider a common unicast beamforming network where Alice utilizes the communication to Carol as a cover and covertly transmits a message to Bob without being recognized by Willie. We investigate the beamformer design of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Shuai Ma , Yunqi Zhang , Hang Li , Songtao Lu , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Sha Zhang , Shiyin Li

A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) enhanced non-orthogonal multiple access assisted backscatter communication (RIS-NOMABC) system is considered. A joint optimization problem over power reflection coefficients and phase shifts is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Jiakuo Zuo , Yuanwei Liu , Liang Yang , Lingyang Song , Ying-Chang Liang

By activating blocked users and altering successive interference cancellation (SIC) sequences, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) become promising for enhancing non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems. The downlink RIS-aided…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Chao Zhang , Wenqiang Yi , Yuanwei Liu

Massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) are two key techniques for enabling massive connectivity in future wireless networks. A massive MIMO-NOMA system can deliver remarkable spectral…

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is widely recognized for enhancing the energy and spectral efficiency through effective radio resource sharing. However, uplink NOMA systems face greater challenges than their downlink counterparts, as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-07 Mahmoud AlaaEldin , Mohammad Al-Jarrah , Xidong Mu , Emad Alsusa , Karim G. Seddik , Michail Matthaiou

In this paper, we propose a rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) scheme for uplink wireless communication systems with intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided. In the considered model, IRS is adopted to overcome power attenuation caused…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Shanshan Zhang , Wen Chen

With growing security threats to the evolving wireless systems, protecting user privacy becomes progressively challenging. Even if the transmitted information is encrypted and the potential wiretap channel is physically limited (e.g.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Xiao Lu , Ekram Hossain , Tania Shafique , Shaohan Feng , Hai Jiang , Dusit Niyato

As a revolutionary technology, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been deemed as an indispensable part of the 6th generation communications due to its inherent ability to regulate the wireless channels. However, passive RIS (PRIS)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Xuehua Li , Yingjie Pei , Xinwei Yue , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding

In this letter, improving the security of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) assisted multiple-input single-output (MISO) communication system is studied. Different from the ideal assumption in existing literatures that full…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Hui-Ming Wang , Jiale Bai , Limeng Dong

In this paper, we propose simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks. The considered STAR-RIS utilizes the mode switching (MS) protocol to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Mahmoud Aldababsa , Aymen Khaleel , Ertugrul Basar

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) serves multiple users simultaneously via the same resource block by exploiting superposition coding at the transmitter and successive interference cancellation (SIC) at the receivers. Under practical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Sapna Thapar , Deepak Mishra , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng , Ravikant Saini

The intrinsic integration of the nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) techniques is envisioned to be a promising approach to significantly improve both the spectrum efficiency and energy…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Zhe Zhang , Chensi Zhang , Chengjun Jiang , Fan Jia , Jianhua Ge , Fengkui Gong

The combination of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an efficient solution to significantly enhance the energy efficiency of the wireless communication system. In this paper, we focus on a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Ximing Xie , Fang Fang , Zhiguo Ding

A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) assisted downlink (DL) active and uplink (UL) backscatter communication (BackCom) framework is proposed. More particularly, a full-duplex (FD) base…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Ao Huang , Xidong Mu , Li Guo

This paper investigates the optimization of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) in an integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. \red{To meet the demand of growing number of devices, power domain non-orthogonal multiple access…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 Wanting Lyu , Yue Xiu , Xinyang Li , Songjie Yang , Phee Lep Yeoh , Yonghui Li , Zhongpei Zhang

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a promising technology for next-generation wireless communication systems due to its enhanced spectral efficiency. In this paper, we consider an uplink NOMA system operating together with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Azadeh Tabeshnezhad , Yuqing Zhu , Artem Vilenskiy , Van Ly Nguyen , A. Lee Swindlehurst , Tommy Svensson