Recent progress in reconfigurable and intelligent metasurfaces: A comprehensive review of tuning mechanisms, hardware designs, and applications

Y Saifullah, Y He, A Boag, GM Yang, F Xu - Advanced Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Intelligent metasurfaces have gained significant importance in recent years due to their
ability to dynamically manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves. Their multifunctional …

[HTML][HTML] IRS-enabled NOMA communication systems: A network architecture primer with future trends and challenges

H Sadia, AK Hassan, ZH Abbas, G Abbas… - Digital Communications …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) has already proven to be an effective
multiple access scheme for 5th Generation (5G) wireless networks. It provides improved …

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 …

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 …

Resource allocation in STAR-RIS-aided networks: OMA and NOMA

C Wu, X Mu, Y Liu, X Gu, X Wang - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) is a
promising technology that aids in achieving full-space coverage on both sides of the surface …

Resource allocation for multi-cell IRS-aided NOMA networks

W Ni, X Liu, Y Liu, H Tian… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article proposes a novel framework of resource allocation in multi-cell intelligent
reflecting surface (IRS) aided non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks, where an …

Energy-efficient design of STAR-RIS aided MIMO-NOMA networks

F Fang, B Wu, S Fu, Z Ding… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Simultaneous transmission and reflection-reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) can
provide expanded coverage compared with the conventional reflection-only RIS. This paper …

Multiple RISs assisted cell-free networks with two-timescale CSI: Performance analysis and system design

X Gan, C Zhong, C Huang, Z Yang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) can be employed in a cell-free system to create
favorable propagation conditions from base stations (BSs) to users via configurable …

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 …