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This paper investigates ground-aerial uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) cellular networks. A rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) user and multiple ground users (GUEs) are served by ground base stations (GBSs) by utilizing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Li Guo , Jiaru Lin

In this paper, we investigate the combination of non-orthogonal multiple access and millimeter-Wave communications (mmWave-NOMA). A downlink cellular system is considered, where an analog phased array is equipped at both the base station…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Lipeng Zhu , Jun Zhang , Zhenyu Xiao , Xianbin Cao , Dapeng Oliver Wu , Xiang-Gen Xia

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-enabled backscatter communications can be enabled by an access point (AP) that splits its transmit signal into modulated and unmodulated parts. This letter integrates non-orthogonal multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Azar Hakimi , Shayan Zargari , Chintha Tellambura , Sanjeewa Herath

Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) as a promising technology rendering high throughput in future communication systems is compatible with various communication techniques such as non-orthogonal multiple-access (NOMA). In this paper, the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yasaman Omid , S. M. Mahdi Shahabi , Cunhua Pan , Yansha Deng , Arumugam Nallanathan

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) technology has emerged as a transformative solution for enhancing satellite networks in next-generation wireless communication. The integration of RIS in satellite networks addresses critical…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Wali Ullah Khan , Eva Lagunas , Symeon Chatzinotas

This paper investigates the performance of vehicleto-vehicle (V2V) communications assisted by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and a simultaneous transmitting and reflecting intelligent omni-surface (STAR-IOS) under nonorthogonal…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Masoud Kaveh , Diego Martin

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) constitute a promising performance enhancement for next-generation (NG) wireless networks in terms of enhancing both their spectrum efficiency (SE) and energy efficiency (EE). We conceive a system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-06 Tianwei Hou , Yuanwei Liu , Zhengyu Song , Xin Sun , Yue Chen , Lajos HanzoE

A novel framework is proposed for integrating reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) enabled wireless networks, where an RIS is deployed for enhancing the service quality of the UAV. Non-orthogonal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-07 Xiao Liu , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen

In this paper we explore non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in millimeter-wave (mmWave) communications (mmWave-NOMA). In particular, we consider a typical problem, i.e., maximization of the sum rate of a 2-user mmWave-NOMA system. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-11-07 Zhenyu Xiao , Lipeng Zhu , Jinho Choi , Pengfei Xia , Xiang-Gen Xia

A simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS)-aided near-field integrated sensing, communication, and power transfer (ISCPT) framework is proposed. We formulate a robust harvested power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-18 Zahra Rostamikafaki , Francois Chan , Claude D'Amours

A correlated transmission and reflection (T&R) phase-shift model is proposed for passive lossless simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RISs). A STAR-RIS-aided two-user downlink communication…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Jiaqi Xu , Yuanwei Liu , Xidong Mu , Robert Schober , H. Vincent Poor

The development of sixth-generation (6G) communication technologies is confronted with the significant challenge of spectrum resource shortage. To alleviate this issue, we propose a novel simultaneously transmitting and reflecting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Haochen Li , Yuanwei Liu , Xidong Mu , Yue Chen , Zhiwen Pan , Xiaohu You

In this paper, we study the performance of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) in a multicell broadcast channel (BC) that employs improper Gaussian signaling (IGS) jointly with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to optimize either…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Mohammad Soleymani , Ignacio Santamaria , Eduard Jorswieck , Sepehr Rezvani

In this paper, we investigate the energy-efficient resource allocation problem in an uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) millimeter wave system, where the fully-connected-based sparse radio frequency chain antenna structure is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Wanming Hao , Ming Zeng , Gangcan Sun , Osamu Muta , Octavia A. Dobre , Shouyi Yang , Haris Gacanin

An active reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided multi-user downlink communication system is investigated, where non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is employed to improve spectral efficiency, and the active RIS is powered by…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-25 Zhaoyuan Shi , Huabing Lu , Xianzhong Xie , Helin Yang , Chongwen Huang , Jun Cai , Zhiguo Ding

This paper investigates the application of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in millimeter wave (mmWave) communications by exploiting beamforming, user scheduling and power allocation. Random beamforming is invoked for reducing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-10 Jingjing Cui , Yuanwei Liu , Zhiguo Ding , Pingzhi Fan , Arumugam Nallanathan

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have sparked a renewed interest in the research community envisioning future wireless communication networks. In this study, we analyzed the performance of RIS-enabled non-orthogonal multiple…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Mohd Hamza Naim Shaikh , Sultangali Arzykulov , Abdulkadir Celik , Ahmed M. Eltawil , G. Nauryzbayev

Different from conventional reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS), a recent innovation called simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) has emerged, aimed at achieving complete 360-degree…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Abdelhamid Salem , Kai-Kit Wong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Yangyang Zhang

Fluid integrated reflecting and emitting surfaces (FIRES) are investigated. In these metasurfaces, each subarea hosts an active element capable of simultaneous transmission and reflection, phase, and geometric positioning control within the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , Kai-Kit Wong , Masoud Kaveh , Hanjiang Hong , Chan-Byoung Chae , Lajos Hanzo

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