Multiple access in aerial networks: From orthogonal and non-orthogonal to rate-splitting

W Jaafar, S Naser, S Muhaidat… - IEEE Open Journal …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently, interest on the utilization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has aroused.
Specifically, UAVs can be used in cellular networks as aerial users for delivery, surveillance …

Non-orthogonal multiple access for unmanned aerial vehicle assisted communication

MF Sohail, CY Leow, S Won - IEEE Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The future wireless networks promise to provide ubiquitous connectivity to a multitude of
devices with diversified traffic patterns wherever and whenever needed. For the sake of …

Network-coded multiple access on unmanned aerial vehicle

H Pan, SC Liew, J Liang, Y Shao… - IEEE Journal on Selected …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the first network-coded multiple access (NCMA) downlink system on
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The use of UAV as a mobile aerial base station has …

Uplink cooperative NOMA for cellular-connected UAV

W Mei, R Zhang - IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Aerial-ground interference mitigation is a challenging issue in the emerging cellular-
connected unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) communications. Due to the strong line-of-sight …

UAV-aided air-to-ground cooperative nonorthogonal multiple access

M Liu, G Gui, N Zhao, J Sun… - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article aims to improve spectrum efficiency (SE) for the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-
relayed cellular uplinks, through distinguishing both line-of-sight (LoS) and non-LoS (NLoS) …

Outage performance of non-orthogonal multiple access based unmanned aerial vehicles satellite networks

T Qi, W Feng, Y Wang - China communications, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With rapid development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), more and more UAVs access
satellite networks for data transmission. To improve the spectral efficiency, non-orthogonal …

Outage probability and throughput analysis of UAV-assisted rate-splitting multiple access

SK Singh, K Agrawal, K Singh… - IEEE Wireless …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work studies an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted wireless communication
system where UAV acts as an aerial base station (BS) and serves multiple ground users …

The application of power-domain non-orthogonal multiple access in satellite communication networks

X Yan, K An, T Liang, G Zheng, Z Ding… - IEEE …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Satellite communication networks are expected to be indispensable as part of an integrated
complement for the upcoming 5G networks since they can provide the most comprehensive …

Energy-efficient non-orthogonal multiple access for UAV communication system

MF Sohail, CY Leow, SH Won - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The placement of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) based aerial Base station (BS) has
emerged as a viable solution to the contemplated high traffic demands of the future wireless …

Exploiting NOMA for UAV communications in large-scale cellular networks

T Hou, Y Liu, Z Song, X Sun… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper advocates a pair of strategies in non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) communications, where multiple UAVs play as new aerial …