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High-Altitude Platform Stations (HAPS) are emerging as key enablers of future non-terrestrial networks (NTNs), supporting gigabit-class free-space optical (FSO) backhaul links while hosting laser-based sensing payloads. This tutorial and…

Optics · Physics 2025-11-11 Ali Elkhazraji , Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Aamir Farooq

This paper studies a pinching antenna system (PAS)-assisted hybrid uplink architecture that integrates over-the-air computation (AirComp) and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to simultaneously support distributed data aggregation and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Saeid Pakravan , Imene Trigui , Wessam Ajib , Wei-Ping Zhu

Augmenting ground-level communications with flying networks, such as the high-altitude platform system (HAPS), is among the major innovative initiatives of the next generation of wireless systems (6G). Given HAPS quasi-static positioning at…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Khaleel Mershad , Hayssam Dahrouj , Hadi Sarieddeen , Basem Shihada , Tareq Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this paper, pattern division multiple access with large-scale antenna array (LSA-PDMA) is proposed as a novel non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme. In the proposed scheme, pattern is designed in both beam domain and power domain…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-22 Peng Li , Yanxiang Jiang , Shaoli Kang , Fuchun Zheng , Xiaohu You

Holographic MIMO refers to a (possibly large) array with a large number of individually controlled and densely deployed antennas. The objective of this paper is to provide further insight into the use of closely spaced antennas in the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Antonio Alberto D'Amico , Luca Sanguinetti

In this paper, we propose a network architecture where two types of aerial infrastructures together with a ground station provide connectivity to a remote area. A high altitude platform station (HAPS) is equipped with reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Arman Azizi , Mustafa A. Kishk , Arman Farhang

This paper considers near-field multiuser communications based on sparse arrays (SAs). First, for the uniform SAs (USAs), we analyze the beam gains of channel steering vectors, which shows that increasing the antenna spacings can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Kangjian Chen , Chenhao Qi , Geoffrey Ye Li , Octavia A. Dobre

Achieving seamless global coverage is one of the ultimate goals of space-air-ground integrated network, as a part of which High Altitude Platform (HAP) network can provide wide-area coverage. However, deploying a large number of HAPs will…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Zhiqing Wei , Lin Wang , Zhan Gao , Huici Wu , Ning Zhang , Kaifeng Han , Zhiyong Feng

High Altitude Platforms (HAPs) are a major advancement in non-terrestrial networks, offering broad coverage and unique capabilities. They form a vital link between satellite systems and terrestrial networks and play a key role in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Sultan Çoğay , T. Tolga Sari , Muhammad Nadeem Ali , Byung-Seo Kim , Gökhan Seçinti

The evolvement of wireless communication services concurs with significant growth in data traffic, thereby inflicting stringent requirements on terrestrial networks. This work invigorates a novel connectivity solution that integrates aerial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Rawan Alghamdi , Hayssam Dahrouj , Tareq Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

This letter proposes a novel mathematical framework for the statistical characterization of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-mounted high-altitude platform station (HAPS)-assisted MIMO systems over cascaded Rician fading channels.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-29 Tayfun Yilmaz , Haci Ilhan , Ali Gorcin , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a promising radio access technique for next-generation wireless networks. In this article, we investigate the NOMA-based cooperative relay network. We begin with an introduction of the existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Dehuan Wan , Miaowen Wen , Fei Ji , Hua Yu , Fangjiong Chen

Next-generation satellite systems require more flexibility in resource management such that available radio resources can be dynamically allocated to meet time-varying and non-uniform traffic demands. Considering potential benefits of beam…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Anyue Wang , Lei Lei , Eva Lagunas , Ana I. Perez-Neira , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

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

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

High altitude platform stations (HAPS) offer a promising solution for achieving ubiquitous connectivity in next-generation wireless networks (xG). Integrating HAPS with terrestrial networks, creating HAPS-empowered vertical heterogeneous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Afsoon Alidadi Shamsabadi , Animesh Yadav , Halim Yanikomeroglu

In this paper, we investigate high-altitude platform station (HAPS) wireless networks for simultaneous non-orthogonal unicast and multicast transmissions. Specifically, stacked intelligent metasurface (SIM)-based wave-domain beamforming is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Ngoc Phuc Le , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

In this paper, we study the uplink channel throughput performance of a proposed novel multiple-antenna hybrid-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (MA-HD-NOMA) scheme. This scheme combines the conventional sparse code multiple access…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Animesh Yadav , Chen Quan , Pramod K. Varshney , H. Vincent Poor

In this paper, we propose a novel network architecture for integrating terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) to establish connection between terrestrial ground stations which are unconnected due to blockage. We propose a new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-17 Arman Azizi , Arman Farhang

The impact of information and communication technologies on global energy consumption is increasing every year, and mobile networks account for a significant portion of it. More than 50% of the total energy consumption of mobile networks is…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Cihan Emre Kement , Ferdi Kara , Wael Jaafar , Halim Yanikomeroglu , Gamini Senarath , Ngoc Dung Dao , Peiying Zhu