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The aerial-terrestrial communication system constitutes an efficient paradigm for supporting and complementing terrestrial communications. However, the benefits of such a system cannot be fully exploited, especially when the line-of-sight…
High Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) have emerged as a promising enabler for next-generation wireless networks, offering ubiquitous connectivity to ground users. Operating either in standalone mode or in integration with terrestrial…
This paper proposes, and evaluates the benefit of, one particular hybrid satellite-HAPS-ground network, where one high-altitude-platform-station (HAPS) connected to one geo-satellite assists the ground base-stations (BSs) at serving…
This paper investigates a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system and proposes a joint communication and sensing beamforming design based on non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)…
Due to an increasing number of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with generally limited battery power, energy efficient data transmission schemes with massive connectivity capabilities are required for future wireless networks. Non-orthogonal…
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) offers tremendous spectrum and energy efficiency in wireless networks by adjusting the amplitudes and/or phases of passive reflecting elements to optimize signal reflection. With the agility and…
Satellite communication constitutes a promising solution for the sixth generation (6G) wireless networks in terms of providing global communication services. In order to provide a cost-effective satellite network, we propose a novel…
Different from traditional reflection-only reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), simultaneously transmitting and reflecting RISs (STAR-RISs) represent a novel technology, which extends the half-space coverage to full-space coverage by…
Future wireless networks are envisioned to deliver not only gigabit communications but also ubiquitous sensing. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) have emerged to reshape radio propagation, recently showing considerable promise for…
With the aim of integrating over-the-air federated learning (AirFL) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) into an on-demand universal framework, this paper proposes a novel reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided hybrid network…
In order to overcome the inherent latency in multi-user unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) networks with orthogonal multiple access (OMA). In this paper, we investigate the UAV enabled uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network, where…
Intelligent surfaces that reshape electromagnetic waves are regarded as disruptive technologies for wireless networks. However, existing designs sit at two costly extremes: dynamic reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) offer fine beam…
Despite the prevalence of wireless connectivity in urban areas around the globe, there remain numerous and diverse situations where connectivity is insufficient or unavailable. To address this, we introduce mobile wireless infrastructure on…
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…
This paper studies the potential of RIS-integrated NTNs to revolutionize the next-generation connectivity. First, it discusses the fundamentals of RIS technology. Secondly, it delves into reporting the recent advances in RIS-enabled NTNs.…
Conventional multiple-input multiple-out (MIMO) technologies have encountered bottlenecks of significantly increasing spectrum efficiencies of wireless communications due to the low degrees of freedom in practical line-of-sight scenarios…
Cell-free massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) is a promising network architecture for beyond 5G systems, which can particularly offer more uniform data rates across the coverage area. Recent works have shown how reconfigurable…
Despite the significant attention that aerial base stations (ABSs) have received recently, their practical implementation is severely weakened by their limited endurance due to the battery constraints of drones. To overcome this fundamental…
High altitude platform stations (HAPS) have recently emerged as a new key stratospheric player in non-terrestrial networks (NTN) alongside satellites and low-altitude platforms. In this paper, we present the main communication links between…
In the future, urban regions will encounter a massive number of capacity-hungry devices. Relying solely on terrestrial networks for serving all UEs will be a cost-ineffective approach. Consequently, with the anticipated supply and demand…