Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces: Principles and opportunities

Y Liu, X Liu, X Mu, T Hou, J Xu… - … surveys & tutorials, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs), also known as intelligent reflecting surfaces
(IRSs), or large intelligent surfaces (LISs), 1 have received significant attention for their …

A comprehensive overview on 5G-and-beyond networks with UAVs: From communications to sensing and intelligence

Q Wu, J Xu, Y Zeng, DWK Ng… - IEEE Journal on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the advancements in cellular technologies and the dense deployment of cellular
infrastructure, integrating unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into the fifth-generation (5G) and …

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 …

Grant-free non-orthogonal multiple access for IoT: A survey

MB Shahab, R Abbas… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Massive machine-type communications (mMTC) is one of the main three focus areas in the
5th generation (5G) of wireless communications technologies to enable connectivity of a …

User grouping and energy harvesting in UAV-NOMA system with AF/DF relaying

DT Do, AT Le, Y Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is one of the driving forces for
revolutionizing wireless communications in the modern era. Although there are many unique …

Relay selection and power allocation for energy efficiency maximization in hybrid satellite-UAV networks with CoMP-NOMA transmission

S Mirbolouk, M Valizadeh… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and coordinated multi-point (CoMP) are two
fundamental techniques considered for the fifth generation (5 G) of wireless …

On the 3-D placement of airborne base stations using tethered UAVs

MA Kishk, A Bader, MS Alouini - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the main challenges slowing the deployment of airborne base stations (BSs) using
unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is the limited on-board energy and flight time. One …

MIMO assisted networks relying on intelligent reflective surfaces: A stochastic geometry based analysis

T Hou, Y Liu, Z Song, X Sun, Y Chen… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflective surfaces (IRSs) are invoked for improving both the spectral efficiency
(SE) and energy efficiency (EE). Specifically, an IRS-aided multiple-input multiple-output …

Outage probability of aerial base station NOMA MIMO wireless communication with RF energy harvesting

TM Hoang, XN Tran, PT Hiep - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we consider a base station (BS) mounted on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
called as an aerial BS (ABS). The ABS is equipped with multiple antennas to assist two pairs …

Joint access and backhaul resource management in satellite-drone networks: A competitive market approach

Y Hu, M Chen, W Saad - IEEE Transactions on Wireless …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, the problem of user association and resource allocation is studied for an
integrated satellite-drone network (ISDN). In the considered model, drone base stations …