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As a prominent member of the next generation multiple access (NGMA) family, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been recognized as a promising multiple access candidate for the sixth-generation (6G) networks. This article focuses on…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Yuanwei Liu , Wenqiang Yi , Zhiguo Ding , Xiao Liu , Octavia Dobre , Naofal Al-Dhahir

As a subfield of network coding, physical-layer network coding (PNC) can effectively enhance the throughput of wireless networks by mapping superimposed signals at receiver to other forms of user messages. Over the past twenty years, PNC…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-25 Pingping Chen , Zhaopeng Xie , Yi Fang , Zhifeng Chen , Shahid Mumtaz , Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues

Near-field communication comes to be an indispensable part of the future sixth generation (6G) communications at the arrival of the forth-coming deployment of extremely large-scale multiple-input-multiple-output (XL-MIMO) systems. Due to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Haochen Wu , Liyang Lu , Zhaocheng Wang

Movable antenna (MA) technology exhibits great promise for enhancing the sensing capabilities of future sixth-generation (6G) networks due to its capability to alter antenna array geometry. With the growing prevalence of near-field…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yushen Wang , Weidong Mei , Xin Wei , Ya Fei Wu , Zhi Chen , Boyu Ning

Movable antenna (MA) has been regarded as a promising technology to enhance wireless communication performance by enabling flexible antenna movement. However, the hardware cost of conventional MA systems scales with the number of movable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Lipeng Zhu , He Sun , Wenyan Ma , Zhenyu Xiao , Rui Zhang

Empowered by the latest progress on innovative metamaterials/metasurfaces and advanced antenna technologies, holographic multiple-input multiple-output (H-MIMO) emerges as a promising technology to fulfill the extreme goals of the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Tierui Gong , Li Wei , Chongwen Huang , George C. Alexandropoulos , Mérouane Debbah , Chau Yuen

Noncoherent communication systems have regained interest due to the growing demand for high-mobility and low-latency applications. Most existing studies using large antenna arrays rely on the far-field approximation, which assumes locally…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-26 Aniol Martí , Luca Sanguinetti , Meritxell Lamarca , Jaume Riba

Fluid antenna is a novel technology that can make an antenna appear instantly at one of N preset locations in a predefined space. An important application is to adopt fluid antenna in a small space of mobile device for obtaining the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Kai-Kit Wong , Kin-Fai Tong

To further improve the system capacity for 5G, we explore the integration of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in mmWave communications (mmWave-NOMA) for future 5G systems. Compared with the conventional NOMA, the distinguishing feature…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Zhenyu Xiao , Linglong Dai , Zhiguo Ding , Jinho Choi , Pengfei Xia

This paper exploits the dynamic features of wireless propagation environments as the basis for a new multiple access technique, termed environment division multiple access (EDMA). In particular, with the proposed pinching-antenna-assisted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Zhiguo Ding , Robert Schober , H. V. Poor

The resolution is an important performance metric of near-field communication networks. In particular, the resolution of near field beamforming measures how effectively users can be distinguished in the distance-angle domain, which is one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Chenguang Rao , Zhiguo Ding , Octavia A. Dobre , Xuchu Dai

Radio frequency wireless power transfer (WPT) enables charging low-power mobile devices without relying on wired infrastructure. Current existing WPT systems are typically designed assuming far-field propagation, where the radiated energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-12 Haiyang Zhang , Nir Shlezinger , Francesco Guidi , Davide Dardari , Mohammadreza F Imani , Yonina C Eldar

Sixth generation (6G) wireless networks are envisioned to include aspects of energy footprint reduction (sustainability), besides those of network capacity and connectivity, at the design stage. This paradigm change requires radically new…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Juan Carlos Ruiz-Sicilia , Marco Di Renzo , Placido Mursia , Aryan Kaushik , Vincenzo Sciancalepore

This paper aims to design multiple access (MA) schemes to improve the max-min fairness (MMF) for pinching antennas (PAs)-based multigroup multicast communications, where PA placement and resource allocation are jointly optimized.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-26 Shan Shan , Chongjun Ouyang , Yong Li , Yuanwei Liu

The explosive growth of teletraffic, fueled by the convergence of cyber-physical systems and data-intensive applications, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous systems, and immersive communications, demands a multidisciplinary…

The fifth generation wireless networks focus on the design of low latency, high data rate, high reliability, and massive connectivity communications. Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is an essential enabling technology to accommodate…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-28 Fan Wei , Wen Chen , Yong peng Wu , Jun Li , Yuan Luo

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

The coexistence of different wireless communication systems such as LTE and Wi-Fi by sharing the unlicensed band is well studied in the literature. In these studies, various methods are proposed to support the coexistence of systems,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-03 Mehmet Mert Şahin , Hüseyin Arslan

We consider uplink power control in wireless communication when a large number of users compete over the channel resources. The CDMA protocol, as a supporting technology of 3G networks accommodating signal from different sources over the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Yuchi Wu , Junfeng Wu , Minyi Huang , Ling Shi

This letter investigates the coexistence between near-field (NF) and far-field (FF) communications, where multiple FF users are clustered to be served on the beams of legacy NF users, via non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). Three…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Kaidi Wang , Zhiguo Ding , George K. Karagiannidis