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While low-altitude wireless networks (LAWNs) based on uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) offer high mobility, flexibility, and coverage for urban communications, they face severe signal attenuation in dense environments due to obstructions. To…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Xinyue Liang , Hui Kang , Junwei Che , Jiahui Li , Geng Sun , Qingqing Wu , Jiacheng Wang , Dusit Niyato

Information-bearing reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (IB-RIS) provide a promising solution to self-sustainable and green communications by harvesting ambient radio frequency energy while embedding information via passive reflection. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Zeyang Sun , Shuai Han , Chenyu Wu , Sai Xu , Yuanwei Liu

A novel intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided multi-robot network is proposed, where multiple mobile wheeled robots are served by an access point (AP) through non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). The goal is to maximize the sum-rate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Xinyu Gao , Yuanwei Liu , Xidong Mu

The novel concept of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) aided joint radar and multicast-unicast communication (Rad-MU-Com) is investigated. Employing the same spectrum resource, a multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) dual-functional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Li Guo , Jiaru Lin , Lajos Hanzo

This study explores the synergy between rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) and simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) as a unified framework to enable ubiquitous, intelligent, and resilient…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Muhammad Asif , Asim Ihsan , Zhu Shoujin , Ali Ranjha , Xingwang Li , Khaled M. Rabie , Symeon Chatzinotas

In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) multi-way relaying networks (MWRNs). Multiple terrestrial users aim to exchange their mutual information via an amplify-and-forward (AF)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Xingwang Li , Qunshu Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Theodoros A. Tsiftsis , Zhiguo Ding , Arumugam Nallanathan

This paper presents a joint framework that integrates reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) with Terahertz (THz) communications and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to enhance smart industrial communications. The proposed system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Ali Raza , Muhammad Farhan Khan , Zeeshan Alam , Muhammad Saad , Ilyas Saleem , Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin , Muhammad Ali Jamshed

This paper investigates the multi-antenna covert communications assisted by a simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS). In particular, to shelter the existence of communications between…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Han Xiao , Xiaoyan Hu , Pengcheng Mu , Wenjie Wang , Tong-Xing Zheng , Kai-Kit Wong , Kun Yang

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

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted communication is becoming a streamlined technology in providing improved coverage to the internet-of-things (IoT) based devices. Rapid deployment, portability, and flexibility are some of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Muhammad Ali Jamshed , Ferheen Ayaz , Aryan Kaushik , Carlo Fischione , Masood Ur-Rehman

The recent evolution of ambient backscattering technology has the potential to provide long-range and low-power wireless communications. In this work, we study the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted backscatter networks where the UAV…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-02-11 Amin Farajzadeh , Ozgur Ercetin , Halim Yanikomeroglu

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

This paper investigates unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) data collection systems with different multiple access schemes, where a rotary-wing UAV is dispatched to collect data from multiple ground nodes (GNs). Our goal is to maximize the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Li Guo , Jiaru Lin , Zhiguo Ding

In this article, we investigate the robust beamforming design for a simultaneous transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) aided downlink rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) communication system, where both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-08 Ziyue Wang , Xiaoyan Ma , Xingyu Peng , Zheao Li , Jinyuan Liu , Yongliang Guan , Chau Yuen

In this paper, we find trajectory planning and power allocation for a vehicular network in which an unmanned-aerial-vehicle (UAV) is considered as a relay to extend coverage for two disconnected far vehicles. We show that in a two-user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Omid Abbasi , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Afshin Ebrahimi , Nader Mokari Yamchi

This article investigates the cache-enabling unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) cellular networks with massive access capability supported by non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). The delivery of a large volume of multimedia contents for ground…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-13 Tiankui Zhang , Ziduan Wang , Yuanwei Liu , Wenjun Xu , Arumugam Nallanathan

A novel framework of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)-enhanced indoor wireless networks is proposed, where an RIS mounted on the robot is invoked to enable mobility of the RIS and enhance the service quality for mobile users.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Ruikang Zhong , Xiao Liu , Yuanwei Liu , Yue Chen , Zhu Han

This paper introduces a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted grant-free non-orthogonal multiple-access (GF-NOMA) scheme. To ensure the power reception disparity required by the power domain NOMA (PD-NOMA), we propose a joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Recep Akif Tasci , Fatih Kilinc , Abdulkadir Celik , Asmaa Abdallah , Ahmed M. Eltawil , Ertugrul Basar

This paper proposes a secure downlink multi-user transmission scheme enabled by a flexible unmanned aerial vehicle base station (UAV-BS) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). According to their heterogeneous service requirements,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Hui-Ming Wang , Xu Zhang

Coverage and capacity are the important metrics for performance evaluation in wireless networks, while the coverage and capacity have several conflicting relationships, e.g. high transmit power contributes to large coverage but high…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Xinyu Gao , Wenqiang Yi , Alexandros Agapitos , Hao Wang , Yuanwei Liu