Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for wireless communications: Overview of hardware designs, channel models, and estimation techniques

M Jian, GC Alexandropoulos, E Basar… - Intelligent and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The demanding objectives for the future sixth generation (6G) of wireless communication
networks have spurred recent research efforts on novel materials and radio-frequency front …

Evolution of NOMA toward next generation multiple access (NGMA) for 6G

Y Liu, S Zhang, X Mu, Z Ding, R Schober… - IEEE Journal on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the explosive growth in the number of wireless devices and diverse wireless
services, such as virtual/augmented reality and Internet-of-Everything, next generation …

Exploring reconfigurable intelligent surfaces for 6G: State‐of‐the‐art and the road ahead

S Basharat, M Khan, M Iqbal, US Hashmi… - IET …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) are envisioned to transform the propagation
space into a smart radio environment (SRE) to realize the diverse applications of sixth …

A state-of-the-art survey on reconfigurable intelligent surface-assisted non-orthogonal multiple access networks

Z Ding, L Lv, F Fang, OA Dobre… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) and nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) have
been recognized as key enabling techniques for the envisioned sixth generation (6G) of …

Is NOMA efficient in multi-antenna networks? A critical look at next generation multiple access techniques

B Clerckx, Y Mao, R Schober… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the past few years, a large body of literature has been created on downlink Non-
Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA), employing superposition coding and Successive …

AI empowered RIS-assisted NOMA networks: Deep learning or reinforcement learning?

R Zhong, Y Liu, X Mu, Y Chen… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-assisted multi-user downlink communication
system over fading channels is investigated, where both non-orthogonal multiple access …

Energy-efficient IRS-aided NOMA beamforming for 6G wireless communications

A Ihsan, W Chen, M Asif, WU Khan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This manuscript presents an energy-efficient alternating optimization framework based on
intelligent reflective surfaces (IRS) aided non-orthogonal multiple access beamforming …

Rate splitting multiple access for sum-rate maximization in IRS aided uplink communications

M Katwe, K Singh, B Clerckx… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided uplink (UL) rate-splitting multiple
access (RSMA) system is investigated for dead-zone users where the direct link between the …

Power minimization for uplink RIS-assisted CoMP-NOMA networks with GSIC

H Wang, C Liu, Z Shi, Y Fu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To accommodate the stringent requirements of massive connectivity and ultra-high
throughput, both reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and non-orthogonal multiple access …

Securing NOMA networks by exploiting intelligent reflecting surface

Z Zhang, J Chen, Q Wu, Y Liu, L Lv… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper investigates the security enhancement of an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)
assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network, where a base station (BS) serves …