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Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is recognized as a promising radio access technique for the next generation wireless systems. We consider a practical downlink NOMA system with imperfect successive interference cancellation and derive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-19 Nemalidinne Siva Mouni , Pavan Reddy M. , Abhinav Kumar , Prabhat K. Upadhyay

In this letter, the performance of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is investigated in a cellular downlink scenario with randomly deployed users. The developed analytical results show that NOMA can achieve superior performance in terms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Zhiguo Ding , Zheng Yang , Pingzhi Fan , H. Vincent Poor

We consider a downlink multiuser visible light communications (VLC) network where users randomly change their location and vertical orientation. The non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) strategy is adopted to serve multiple users…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Yavuz Yapici , Ismail Guvenc

Quantum annealing is a computational paradigm in which optimisation problems are mapped onto the energy landscape of an interacting quantum system and explored through its dynamical evolution. By continuously transforming a simple initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Steven Abel , Andrei Constantin , Luca A. Nutricati

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems can serve multiple users in contrast to orthogonal multiple-access (OMA), which makes use of the limited time or frequency domain resources. It can help to address the unprecedented…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Syed Agha Hassnain Mohsan , Yanlong Li

The study of optimal control of quantum annealing by modulating the pace of evolution and by introducing a counterdiabatic potential has gained significant attention in recent times. In this work, we present a numerical approach based on…

Quantum adiabatic optimization has long been expected to outperform classical methods in solving NP-type problems. While this has been proven in certain experiments, its main applications still reside in academic problems where the size of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-02 Joan Falcó-Roget , Kacper Jurek , Barbara Wojtarowicz , Karol Capała , Katarzyna Rycerz

The complexity of large-scale 6G-and-beyond networks demands innovative approaches for multi-objective optimization over vast search spaces, a task often intractable. Quantum computing (QC) emerges as a promising technology for efficient…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Sebastian Macaluso , Giovanni Geraci , Elías F. Combarro , Sergi Abadal , Ioannis Arapakis , Sofia Vallecorsa , Eduard Alarcón

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is an efficient approach that can improve spectrum utilization and support massive connectivity for next-generation wireless networks. However, over a wireless channel, the superimposed NOMA signals are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Lu Lv , Hai Jiang , Zhiguo Ding , Qiang Ye , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Jian Chen

Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) is recognized today as a most promising technology for future 5G cellular networks and a large number of papers have been published on the subject over the past few years. Interestingly, none of these…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Hikmet Sari , Ali Maatouk , Ersoy Caliskan , Mohamad Assaad , Mutlu Koca , Guan Gui

Future wireless networks will need to improve adaptive resource allocation and decision-making to handle the increasing number of intelligent devices. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being explored for their potential in real-time…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-18 Felix Obite , Ali Krayani , Atm S. Alam , Lucio Marcenaro , Arumugam Nallanathan , Carlo Regazzoni

With the explosive growth of mobile services, non-orthogonal broadcast/multicast transmissions can effectively improves spectrum efficiency. Nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) represents a paradigm shift from conventional orthogonal…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-03 Yong Zhang , Bin Yang , Xiaohu Ge , Yonghui Li

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a technology enabler for the fifth generation and beyond networks, which has shown a great flexibility such that it can be readily integrated with other wireless technologies. In this paper, we…

We study algorithms inspired by quantum annealing that are suited for the NISQ era. First, we analyze approximate quantum annealing (AQA), which employs a discretized annealing ansatz in which the time step and the number of layers are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Rijul Sachdeva , Vrinda Mehta , Manpreet Singh Jattana , Kristel Michielsen , Fengping Jin

Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a promising radio access technology for 5G. It allows several users to transmit on the same frequency and time resource by performing power-domain multiplexing. At the receiver side, successive…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Lou Salaun , Chung Shue Chen , Marceau Coupechoux

This paper considers a downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system where the source intends to transmit independent information to the users at targeted data rates under statistical channel state information at the transmitter.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Sulong Shi , Longxiang Yang , Hongbo Zhu

Quantum annealing is a promising heuristic method to solve combinatorial optimization problems, and efforts to quantify performance on real-world problems provide insights into how this approach may be best used in practice. We investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-07 Kazuki Ikeda , Yuma Nakamura , Travis S. Humble

We introduce the reinforcement quantum annealing (RQA) scheme in which an intelligent agent interacts with a quantum annealer that plays the stochastic environment role of learning automata and tries to iteratively find better Ising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 Ramin Ayanzadeh , Milton Halem , Tim Finin

This paper proposes a unified framework of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks. Stochastic geometry is employed to model the locations of spatially NOMA users. The proposed unified NOMA framework is capable of being applied to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Xinwei Yue , Zhijin Qin , Yuanwei Liu , Shaoli Kang , Yue Chen

Conventional power-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) relies on precise power control, which requires real-time channel state information at transmitters. This requirement severely limits its application to future wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Zhaoji Zhang , Ying Li , Guanghui Song , Chau Yuen , Yong Liang Guan