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This paper investigates the secure communication capabilities of a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network supported by a STAR-RIS (simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface) deployed on an unmanned…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-09 Aseel Qsibat , Habiba Akhleifa , Abdelhamid Salem , Khaled Rabie , Xingwang Li , Thokozani Shongwe , Mohamad A. Alawad , Yazeed Alkhrijah

This work studies and optimizes the performance of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided networks in Nakagami-m fading environment. First, accurate closed-form approximations for the channel distributions are derived. Then,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 Monjed H. Samuh , Anas M. Salhab , Ahmed H. Abd El-Malek

Non-orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) has become a salient technology for improving the spectral efficiency of the next generation 5G wireless communication networks. In this paper, the achievable average rate of an Opportunistic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-01-16 Pranav Kumar Jha , S Sushmitha Shree , D. Sriram Kumar

This paper investigates the benefits of integrating reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) on minimizing the average sum age of information (AoI) in uplink non-orthogonal multiple access-based Internet-of-Things (IoT) networks. In this…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Ali Muhammad , Mohamed Elhattab , Mohamed Amine Arfaoui , Chadi Assi

The widespread adoption of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs) in future practical wireless systems is critically dependent on the integration of the RIS into higher-layer protocols beyond the physical (PHY) one, an issue that has…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Victor Croisfelt , Fabio Saggese , Israel Leyva-Mayorga , Radosław Kotaba , Gabriele Gradoni , Petar Popovski

The envisioned wireless networks of the future entail the provisioning of massive numbers of connections, heterogeneous data traffic, ultra-high spectral efficiency, and low latency services. This vision is spurring research activities…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Xuelin Cao , Bo Yang , Chongwen Huang , George C. Alexandropoulos , Chau Yuen , Zhu Han , H. Vincent Poor , Lajos Hanzo

This study introduces an innovative approach for adaptive power allocation in Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) systems, enhanced by the integration of spaceborne and terrestrial signals through a Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 M Khalil , Ke Wang , Jinho Choi

A novel framework of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-mounted active simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) communications with the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is proposed for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Jingjing Zhao , Qian Xu , Xidong Mu , Yuanwei Liu , Yanbo Zhu

The space-air-ground integrated network (SAGIN) concept is vital for the development of seamless next-generation (NG) wireless coverage, integrating satellites, unmanned aerial vehicles, and manned aircraft along with the terrestrial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Phuc V. Trinh , Shinya Sugiura , Chao Xu , Lajos Hanzo

The design of feedback channels in frequency division duplex (FDD) systems is a major challenge because of the limited available feedback bits. We consider non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems that incorporate reconfigurable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Mojtaba Ahmadi Almasi , Hamid Jafarkhani

Orthogonal multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) channels allow for optimum performance with simplified precoding/equalization, and they achieve maximum multiplexing gain which is shared fairly among users. Reconfigurable…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Juan Vidal Alegria , Fredrik Rusek

This paper proposes a novel non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) system that integrates optical intelligent reflecting surfaces (OIRS) and simultaneous transmitting and reflecting Intelligent reflecting surfaces (STAR-IRS) to address critical…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Shunyuan Shang , Emna Zedini , Abla Kammoun , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has been recognized as a promising and powerful multiple access (MA) scheme, non-orthogonal transmission framework and interference management strategy for 6G. Inspired by the appealing spectral…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Tianyu Fang , Yijie Mao , Shanpu Shen , Zhencai Zhu , Bruno Clerckx

Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) is a promising technology to avoid signal blockage by creating virtual line-of-sight (LOS) connectivity for free-space optical (FSO) and radio frequency (RF) wireless systems. This paper considers a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Vinay Kumar Chapala , S. M. Zafaruddin

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are envisioned to be a disruptive wireless communication technique that is capable of reconfiguring the wireless propagation environment. In this paper, we study a free-space RIS-assisted…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Xin Cheng , Yan Lin , Weiping Shi , Jiayu Li , Cunhua Pan , Feng Shu , Yongpeng Wu , Jiangzhou Wang

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) offer a low-cost, energy-efficient means for enhancing wireless coverage. Yet, their inherently programmable reflections may unintentionally amplify interference, particularly in large-scale,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Kaining Wang , Bo Yang , Yusheng Lei , Zhibo Li , Zhiwen Yu , Xuelin Cao , Bin Guo , George C. Alexandropoulos , Dusit Niyato , Mérouane Debbah , Zhu Han

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

Simultaneously reflecting and transmitting reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (STAR-RIS) has recently emerged as prominent technology that exploits the transmissive property of RIS to mitigate the half-space coverage limitation of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-01 Muhammad Faraz Ul Abrar , Muhammad Talha , Rafay Iqbal Ansari , Syed Ali Hassan , Haejoon Jung

Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are set to be a revolutionary technology in the 6th generation of wireless systems. In this work, we study the application of RIS in a multi-user passive localization scenario, where we have one…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-27 Kamran Keykhosravi , Musa Furkan Keskin , Satyam Dwivedi , Gonzalo Seco-Granados , Henk Wymeersch

This paper investigates the use of the reconfigurable dual-functional surface to guarantee the full-space secure transmission in non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks. In the presence of eavesdroppers, the downlink communication…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-31 Wen Wang , Wanli Ni , Hui Tian , Zhaohui Yang , Chongwen Huang , Kai-Kit Wong