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With the rapid growth of vehicles, the vehicular networks meet main challenges such as dynamic, heterogeneous, and large scaled. In addition, the cellular-based vehicular networks must satisfy further strict requirements including ultra low latency, high reliability, high spectrum efficiency and massive connections of the next generation (6G) network. Recently, by exploiting vehicle clustering utilized for reducing the complexity of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) systems, it could ultimately improve road traffic efficiency. In some specific scenarios related to Internet of Things (IoT), a group of vehicles can be served effectively in term of spectrum efficiency when two key techniques are enabled, i.e. non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and cognitive radio (CR) schemes are joint deployed. These techniques certainly benefit to 6G V2X services to reduce specific challenges such as traffic congestion and massive connections. Different from existing works, we propose wireless power transfer (WPT) applied to roadside unit (RSU) to improve the situation that energy shortening in small devices deployed in V2X communications. In particular, we derive expressions of throughput to exhibit performance of the two grouped vehicles. To further indicate advantages of spectrum efficiency, we compare two schemes of V2X systems with and without CR schemes. Numerical results demonstrate that the non-CR NOMA-V2X scheme outperforms the CR-based NOMA-V2X scheme with fixed power allocation, but the non-CR NOMA-V2X scheme costs higher spectrum resource compared with the counterpart. Besides, by comparing with orthogonal multiple access (OMA)-assisted V2X, NOMA-V2X schemes demonstrate superiority in term of throughput performance whilst achieving the benefits of both NOMA and CR schemes.

The rapid increase of diverse Internet of Things (IoT) services and devices has raised numerous challenges in terms of connectivity, interoperability, and security. The heterogeneity of the networks, devices, and services introduces serious vulnerabilities to security, especially distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which exploit massive IoT devices to exhaust both network and victim resources. As such, this article proposes FOGshield, which is a localized DDoS prevention framework leveraging the federated computing power of the fog computing-based access networks to deploy multiple smart endpoint defenders at the border of relevant attack-source/destination networks. Cooperation among the smart endpoint defenders is supervised by a central orchestrator. The central orchestrator localizes each smart endpoint defender by feeding appropriate training parameters into its self-organizing map component, based on the attacking behavior. Performance of the FOGshield framework is verified using three typical IoT traffic scenarios. Numerical results reveal that the FOGshield outperforms existing solutions.

Security countermeasures are considered one of the major concerns in the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm to guarantee an efficient network operation. To investigate the security problem in unauthorized access to sensitive IoT information and services, this paper, particularly, studies physical-layer security of a typical system model constituted by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) assisted access point (AP), legitimate user, and an eavesdropper. In this model, a RIS is deployed to increase the system secrecy and communication performances to deal with eavesdropping attacks. To measure the security performances, we firstly expose analytical results for the secrecy outage probability. We provide insights with asymptotic analysis to identify system parameters that significantly affect the secrecy performance of our proposed RIS-aided IoT systems. In particular, the findings show that by controlling the number of metasurface elements of the RIS and the average signal-to-noise ratios (SNR), system performances can be improved. We verify such a RIS-aided IoT system within many practical situations by conducting Monte-Carlo simulations in the Matlab simulation platform. We compared our analytical results with the Monte-Carlo simulations to evaluate the accuracy of the proposed closed-form expressions of secure performance metrics. Simulation results demonstrated that the secrecy performance in the IoT systems can be significantly improved by increasing the number of metasurfaces in the RIS and reducing channel quality approaching to eavesdroppers.

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 features of UAV networks, their widespread use is still hampered by the short battery life. As a result, most of the research efforts in this domain mainly have focused on the efficient use of energy through trajectory planning and cooperative communication. While there have been a few proposals to use energy harvesting techniques for UAV networks, a complete understanding of the performance limits of such networks is still missing in the literature and needs further investigations. Within this context, our paper provides a comprehensive performance evaluation of UAV relay networks (UAVRNs) employing non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique. Specifically, a cooperative communication system, where a UAV serves as a mobile relay, is fully considered. The UAV relay is considered to be wirelessly-powered and harvests energy from the radio signals received from a nearby base station. For the sake of comparison, both amplify-and-forward (AF) and decode-and-forward (DF) relaying protocols are considered. Subsequently, the closed-form expressions of outage probabilities and ergodic capacities are provided for each UAV relaying protocol. Extensive simulations are performed to verify the accuracy of the derived closed-form expressions. The results provided in this work characterize the outage and ergodic capacity performance of NOMA-enabled UAVRNs.

As a new energy saving approach for green communications, energy harvesting (EH) could be suitable technique to facilitate massive connections for large number of devices in such networks. The spectrum shortage occurs in huge number of devices which access with small-cell and macro-cell networks. To tackle these challenges, we develop a tractable framework relying on prominent techniques such as non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), antenna selection and energy harvesting. In this paper, we aim at practical scenarios of small cell networks by jointly evaluating capable of interference management and EH. We benefit from transmission approaches including full duplex (FD) and bi-directional transmission to improve the main performance system metrics such as outage probability and throughput. Three useful schemes are explored by considering EH and inter-cell interference. We derive the closed-form and asymptotic expressions for system metrics. We then perform extensive simulations with different system configurations to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed small-cell NOMA systems.

This article considers the outage performance of the downlink transmission for a small cell network in a heterogeneous network. Due to mobility and distribution of users, it is necessary to study massive connections and high energy efficiency for such kind of systems. To be an enabler of energy harvesting, a power beacon is helpful to support the base station to send signals to distant users, and wireless power transfer (WPT) is exploited to guarantee the data packets transmission from the power beacon to the base station. To provide massive connections, we propose a novel non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique combined with WPT to enhance outage performance and latency reduction. Furthermore, we derive outage probability (OP) to characterize the system performance. Simulation results are verified to match well between theoretical and analytical methods, and main parameters are determined to understand how they affect the proposed scheme.

A downlink of small-cell network is studied in this paper studies in term of outage performance. We benefit by design of multiple antennas at the base station and fullduplex transmission mode. The scenario of multiple surrounded small-cell networks is considered to look the impact of interference. We derive the closed-form expression of outage probability to show performance of mobile user. We investigate target rate is main factor affecting to outage performance. According to the considered system, simulation results indicate reasonable value of outage probability and throughput as well. Finally, Monte-Carlo simulation method is deployed to determine exactness of main results found in this article. Finally, the considered system can exhibit improved performance if controlling interference term.

By removing the orthogonal use of radio-resources, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been introduced to improve the spectral efficiency of fifth generation (5G) and beyond networks. This paper studies the system performance in a dual-hop multi-relay NOMA using decode-and-forward (DF) scheme over Nakagami-m fading channels. A group of NOMA users is considered, i.e. the near and far users which are decided by how strong these related channels are. Specifically, we obtain a closed-form expression of the outage probability of the near/far NOMA users when the several relay selection schemes are adopted for selecting the best among M intermediate relays. As main finding, this paper introduces three strategies including two-stage relay selection, max-min and power allocation based relay selection schemes. As main benefit, the NOMA users are considered to employ selection combining technique in order to improve signal transmissions for an increased reliability in the context of massive connections in 5G wireless communications. By conducting numerical simulations, we evaluate the impact of the number of intermediate relays, the NOMA power allocation factor, and the Nakagami-m fading severity parameter on the outage performance of the NOMA users. Finally, the outage probability along with throughout in delay-limited transmission mode are provided via numerical results and the necessary comparisons are provided.

Observing that cooperative scheme benefits to non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems, we focus on system performance analysis of downlink. However, spectrum efficiency is still high priority to be addressed in existing systems and hence this paper presents full-duplex enabling in NOMA systems. Other challenge needs be considered related to channel state information (CSI). In particular, we derive closedform expressions of outage probability for such NOMA systems under the presence of CSI imperfection. Furthermore, to fully exploit practical environment, we provide system model associated with Nakagami-m fading. The Monte-Carlo simulations are conducted to verify the exactness of considered systems.

Device-to-device (D2D) communication has been proposed to employ the proximity between two devices to enhance the overall spectrum utilization of a crowded cellular network. With the help of geometric probability tools, this framework considers the performance of cellular users under spatial separation with the D2D pair is investigated. The measurement results and analytical expression of outage probability show that the proposed frameworks improve the outage performance at a high signal-tonoise ratio (SNR) at the base station. Results also interpret that the distances between nodes in the D2D-assisted network make slight impacts on the performance of the cellular user.

Power domain based multiple access scheme is introduced in this paper, namely Non-orthogonal multiple-access (NOMA). We deploy a wireless network using NOMA together with a wireless power transfer (WPT) scheme for dedicated user over Nakagami-$m$ fading channel. When combined, these promising techniques (NOMA and WPT) improve the system performance in term of ergodic performance at reasonable coefficient of harvested power. However, fixed power allocation factors for each NOMA user can be adjusted at the base station and it further provide performance improvement. We design a new signal frame to deploy a NOMA scheme in WPT which adopts a linear energy harvesting model. The ergodic capacity in such a NOMA network and power allocation factors can be updated frequently in order to achieve a fair distribution among NOMA users. The exact expressions of ergodic capacity for each user is derived. The simulation results show that an agreement between analytic performance and Monte-Carlo simulation can be achieved.

This paper studies a downlink security-aware secure outage performance in the secondary network of cognitive radio-assisted non-orthogonal multiple access network (CR-NOMA). The multiple relay is employed to assist transmission from the secondary source to destinations. The security-aware performance is subject to constraints in fixed power allocation factor assigned to each secondary user. The security-aware secure performance is based on channel state information (CSI) at the physical layer in which an eavesdropper intends to steal information. According to the considered system, exact expressions of Strictly positive secure capacity (SPSC) are proved to analyze system in terms of secure performance. Finally, the secondary user secure problem is evaluated via Monte-Carlo simulation method. The main results indicate that the secure performance of proposed system can be improved significantly.

This paper studies the secondary network relying relay selection to transmit signal from the secondary source (base station) to two destinations. Especially, two destinations are required non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) scheme and it benefits to implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT) systems. However, eavesdropper over-hears signal related link from selected relay to destination. This paper measure secure performance via metric, namely secure outage probability (SOP). In particular, signal to noise ratio (SNR) criterion is used to evalute SOP to provide reliable transmission to the terminal node. Main results indicates that the considered scheme provides performance gap among two signals at destination. The exactness of derived expressions is confirmed via numerical simulation.

Reliable data exchange and efficient image transfer are currently significant research challenges in health care systems. To incentivize data exchange within the Internet of Things (IoT) framework, we need to ensure data sovereignty by facilitating secure data exchange between trusted parties. The security and reliability of data-sharing infrastructure require a community of trust. Therefore, this paper introduces an encryption frame based on data fragmentation. It also presents a novel, deterministic grey-scale optical encryption scheme based on fundamental mathematics. The objective is to use encryption as the underlying measure to make the data unintelligible while exploiting fragmentation to break down sensitive relationships between attributes. Thus, sensitive data distributed in separate data repositories for decryption and reconstruction using interpolation by knowing polynomial coefficients and personal values from the DBMS Database Management System. Aims also to ensure the secure acquisition of diagnostic images, micrography, and all types of medical imagery based on probabilistic approaches. Visual sharing of confidential medical imageries based on implementing a novel method, where transparencies ≤k − 1out ofncannot reveal the original image.

Witnessing the recent rapid 5G commercialization with multiple advantages in terms of high throughput, low latency, great serviceability, and extreme density, people look forward to seeing a new innovation in the next-generation mobile networks–6G. As a demand response, 6G additionally integrates artificial intelligence into all operational perspectives of the network while incorporating new infrastructure to support service coverability to yet underserved areas. Since the artificial intelligence in 6G has been discussed significantly in the literature, this article, on the other hand, provides major insights of the 6G aerial radio access network (ARAN) as an expansion of mobile coverage from the sky. First, we highlight the distinct attributes of ARAN by constructing a comparative taxonomy among mobile access infrastructures. Consequently, comprehensive ARAN architecture, reference model, and potential technologies are analyzed. Next, current research trends are investigated followed by future challenge discussions.

To implement machine type communications (MTCs) in next generation mobile networks, Narrowband-Internet of Things (NB-IoT) need be studied. Such NB-IoT has been released by the third generation partnership project (3GPP) as a promising method to exhibit extended coverage and low energy consumption, especially for cheap MTC devices. However, the existing NB-IoT using orthogonal multiple access (OMA) scheme which cannot provide connectivity for a massive MTC devices. In this paper, we consider NB-IoT using non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). We find that power allocation factors for devices in clustering users as main enabler to exhibit differences in term of performance of devices. The worse situation of imperfect successive interference cancellation (SIC) is further studied due to main reason regarding degraded system performance. We derive closed-form expressions of outage probability for devices in a cluster to highlight main parameters affecting quality of devices. We verify our mathematical analysis via Monte-Carlo simulations.

In this study, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) together with cognitive radio (CR) benefit to the vehicle-to-everything (V2X) as promising application with high spectrum efficiency. We have higher priority to evaluate system performance of the secondary network in such CR-NOMA system operating in the context of V2X. We first arrange vehicles belonging to serving group in this CR-NOMA assisted V2X, and it is beneficial to serve massive connections for vehicles. There are two scenarios studied in this paper, with and without the support of CR scheme. In our proposed system, two system metrics need be investigated to evaluate performance of vehicles that need higher quality of service (QoS). Our results indicate that the outage performance gap among two vehicles exists since different transmit power allocation factors were assigned to them. In particular, the outage probability is first derived in exact forms and then the bit error rate (BER) can be further achieved. In specific situations, the optimal outage probability can be obtained by numerical simulations. Simulation results are also provided to verify the correctness of the derived expressions and it exhibits advantages of the proposed CR-NOMA assisted V2X system in terms of two main metrics such as outage probability and BER.

With the fast development of wireless systems and internet of things (IoT), non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has been studied as one of effective schemes to meet increasing demands of massive users. Two types of NOMA transmission, i.e., uplink (UL) and downlink (DL), have been explored in term of mathematical analysis. The first one is derivation of outage probability for UL, DL. The second, we find parameters to adjust system performance to meet requirement in design of NOMA in practice.

As an important partner of fifth generation (5G) communication, the internet of things (IoT) is widely used in many fields with its characteristics of massive terminals, intelligent processing, and remote control. In this paper, we analyze security performance for the cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks for IoT, where the multi-relay Wyner model with direct link between the base station and the eavesdropper is considered. In particular, secrecy outage probability (SOP) for two kinds of relay selection (RS) schemes (i.e., single-phase RS (SRS) and two-phase RS (TRS)) is developed in the form of closed solution. As a benchmark for comparison, the SOP for random RS (RRS) is also obtained. To gain more meaningful insights, approximate derivations of SOP under the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region are provided. Results of statistical simulation confirm the theoretical analysis and testify that: i) Compared with RRS scheme, SRS and TRS may improve secure performance because of obtaining smaller SOPs; ii) There exists secrecy performance floor for the SOP in strong SNR regime, which is dominated by NOMA protocol; iii) The security performance can be enhanced by augmenting the quantity of relays for SRS and TRS strategies. The purpose of this work is to provide theoretical basis for the analysis and design of anti-eavesdropping for NOMA systems in IoT.

This paper investigates the physical layer security and data transmission for the underlay device-to-device (D2D) networks, and considers a combination of the reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and full-duplex (FD) jamming receiver for the robustness and security enhancements of the system. In the demonstrated spectrum sharing setup, the total power of the D2D networks is conceived to the transmitter and receiver to transmit a private message and emit the artificial noise (AN) signals. To prevent information leakage, a beamforming design is presented for a multi-antenna FD D2D receiver in order to suppress and inject the AN signals in the direction of legitimate users and eavesdropper, respectively. The statistical characterization of end-to-end RIS-assisted wireless channels is presented, and the achievable ergodic secrecy rate of the system is derived in novel approximate expressions. The numerical and simulation results confirm the accuracy and effectiveness of the proposed analytical framework. The results demonstrate an optimal selection of the D2D power allocations for different number of reflecting elements in terms of achievable ergodic secrecy rates of the system.

One of the key enablers of future wireless communications is constituted by massive users can access the core network in wireless systems simultaneously, which can improve the spectral efficiency. In existing scheme of massive connections, namely non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), is investigated in conventional relaying networks. This method results in excessive power consumption and high hardware costs. Recently, reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) has been considered as one of the revolutionary technologies to enable energy-efficient and smart wireless communications, which is a two-dimensional structure with a large number of passive elements. This paper examines the RISs used in emerging communications systems based on NOMA scheme. The two-user system model contains the far user and the near user which employing RIS and NOMA is conducted in this study. In particular, we design two links (backscatter and direct links) to target to improve performance of far user. System performance was characterized through closed-form expressions of outage probability, ergodic capacity and throughput, which are beneficial to evaluate performance of two users. In Monte-Carlo simulations, it was revealed that the probability of the two users experiencing system outage was determined by factors related to power allocation, power transmission at the base station, and the number of reflecting elements in the RISs. Web of Science 9 33795 33782

In a wireless system, dual-hop transmission requires Full-Duplex (FD) to transmit signals from the base station too far users. It is more beneficial if we deploy non-orthogonal multiple access to serve specific users, i.e. normal users (near and far users) and device-to-device users. The fairness and outage performance of these users can be studied. We particularly focus on mathematical analysis of outage performance which is computed based on Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) of received signals at each kind of user. We derive a closed-form formula of such outage probability along with throughput. To realize both the FD NOMA, this paper performs system performance metrics and considers how self-interference make influences system performance. The simulation results validate the theoretical analysis and show that our scheme can obtain a better outage probability and throughput performance with high transmit SNR at the base station and lower required target rates.

In this paper, a hybrid satellite-terrestrial spectrum sharing system allows terrestrial secondary network to cooperate with a primary satellite network and to further provide higher spectrum efficiency. For massive connections design, we implement non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique to form cognitive radio based satellite-terrestrial (CR-NSHT) system relying on NOMA and further achieve more benefits compared with traditional schemes. The secondary network only remains its stable operation when the outage probability of such system is guaranteed, and thereby, to explore advantages of spectrum sharing opportunities. Considering Shadowed-Rician fading for satellite links, and Nakagami- $m$ as well as Rician fading for terrestrial links, we derive the closed-form expressions of the outage probability to evaluate the performance of secondary network. We consider further system performance metrics including ergodic capacity, energy efficiency and multi-user scenarios. We also demonstrate the impacts of power allocation factors, transmit signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the source, parameters of satellite links, target rates, and fading severity parameters on the system performance. Numerical and simulation results validate our analysis and highlight the performance gains of the proposed schemes for CR-NSHT with relay link serving secondary network and direct link serving the primary network.

This paper considers a two-user downlink transmission in reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS)-aided network over fading channels. Particularly, by employing user grouping and fixed power allocation scheme to enable non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) approach, RIS-aided network can significant benefit from NOMA. To highlight the advantages of RIS, we compare the system performance of NOMA-RIS and traditional orthogonal multiple access (OMA) based RIS. Main practical circumstances are carefully analyzed, such as, RIS with direct link, system without RIS, and imperfect phase shifts. More specifically, we consider a RIS-aided downlink network, where the base station communicates with a group of two users under assistance of RIS, which acts equivalently as relay. As key expectation, the RIS is efficiently designed to improve the performance of users. To evaluate the system performance, two main system performance metrics including outage probability and average capacity are studied by deriving new closed-form expressions. The goal is to find out which system parameters need to be adjusted to achieve the expected performance. The numerical results reveal that: i) the outage probability and average capacity of considered NOMA-RIS aided wireless system outperforms the conventional NOMA network over fading channels; ii) with different power allocation factors assigned to users, the performance gap among two users can be adjusted to guarantee the fairness characteristic; iii) the number of reflecting elements in RIS has significant impact on the system performance of the considered NOMA-RIS system, which shows advantage of both RIS and NOMA compared with conventional OMA system.

We investigated the outage performance of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in satellite-terrestrial systems which contain hardware impairments. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was implemented to forward signals from a satellite to users on the ground. A two-user model was applied to achieve spectral efficiency. In practical, real-life scenarios, the UAV and ground users encounter issues with imperfect hardware. We examined the performance gap between two users experiencing practical problems such as hardware impairment and imperfect successive interference cancellation (SIC). To implement a practical scenario, Shadow-Rician fading was adopted in the satellite links, and Rician fading was employed in the terrestrial links for ground users. In the main results, we derived the closed-form expression of the outage probability, and to evaluate the system performance of two NOMA users, we obtained the approximate expressions for high signal-to-noise ratios (SNR). Finally, we produced Monte-Carlo simulations to verify the analytical expressions and demonstrate the effect of the main system parameters, such as the number of transmit antennas on the satellite, transmit SNR, and level of hardware impairment on the system performance metric. Web of Science 9 117937 117925

We study the secrecy transmission of uplink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) with single antenna and multi-antenna users in presence of an eavesdropper. Two phases are required for communications during each time frame between the users and the base station in cellular networks. We study the case where an eavesdropper overhears the relay and direct links from the users to the base stations. In terms of the secure performance analysis, we focus on two main metrics including secrecy outage probability (SOP) and strictly positive secrecy capacity (SPSC) with the assumption that the eavesdropper is able to detect the signals. Analytical closed-form expressions for the SOP and SPSC are derived to evaluate the system secure performance achieved by the proposed schemes. Furthermore, the asymptotic analysis is presented to gain further insights. The analytical and numerical results indicate that the proposed schemes can realize better secrecy performance once we improve the channel condition and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) at the base station. Our results confirms that the secrecy performance gaps exist among the two users since different power allocation factors are assigned to these users.

Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) is a significant technique for Internet of Things (IoT) networks. Recently, more interest has been focused on multiple access technique without orthogonal signals for wireless communication. Non-orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) scheme is proposed to allow users the access point in IoT network. In this paper, we propose the power beacon which is able to feed energy to power-constraint relay node to further support transmission from the source to destinations in IoT networks. In this article, a NOMA system is benefited by with WPT and antenna selection technique. The system improvement can be achieved through the exact closed-form expressions of outage probability (OP). The performance gap among two users is evaluated using model of the Rayleigh fading channels. Furthermore, we compare NOMA with traditional scheme to highlight advantage of such IoT system. Web of Science 26 5 65 59

The evolution of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has raised many opportunities for massive connectivity with less latency in signal transmissions at great distances. Power-Domain NOMA transmits user signals superimposed in the same resource block by varying the power coefficient of each user according to their channel state information (CSI). At the receiver’s end, successive interference cancellation (SIC) is performed to extract the desired signal from the superimposed signal. Imperfect CSI should therefore be studied in this context. Satellite-terrestrial networks and relay networks have already gained significance in the field of communications through their efficient data transmission techniques. We aimed to integrate NOMA with a satellite communications network under both imperfect CSI and co-channel interference (CCI) from nearby systems with respect to analysis of ground user performance. In our considered system, two users perform downlink communications under Power-Domain NOMA. We analyzed the performance of this system with two modes of shadowing effect: Heavy Shadowing (HS) and Average Shadowing (AS). Performance was analyzed in terms of the outage probability and ergodic capacity of the system. We derived closed-form expressions and performed a numerical analysis. We discovered that the performance of two destinations depends on the strength of the transmit power at the satellite. However, floor outage occurs because the system depends on other parameters, such as satellite link modes, noise levels, and the number of interference sources. More specifically, if, for example, the number of interference sources is 5, the outage performance of the system experiences a decrease of approximately 40% at a signal to noise ratio (SNR) of 30 dB at the satellite. Outage probability and ergodic capacity became saturated at SNRs of 50 dB and 45 dB, respectively. To verify the authenticity of the derived closed-form expressions, we also performed Monte-Carlo simulations.

In this paper, device to device (D2D) network is studied to support transmission in close distance among group of two users. Such two users benefit from new technique of multiple access, namely non-orthogonal multiple access. Two modes of D2D are considered, such as direct and relay links. Energy harvesting and design of multiple antennas have main impacts on system performance. We derive the closed-form expressions of outage probability for two devices in many scenarios. The Decode and Forward relaying scheme is adopted in this study. To ensure the quality of service (QoS) for the devices, suitable mode can be decided based on specific demand. We compare system performance by varying main parameters such as power allocation factors or transmit signal to noise ratio. Numerical results are performed to verify the effectiveness of the proposed D2D transmission strategies.

To serve massive connections in heterogeneous networks with respect to higher energy efficiency, we focus on new paradigm in order to achieve multiple access and performance improvement at cell-edge area. The power domain based non-orthogonal multiple access is introduced to address such problem. In particular, this paper studies a self-energy relay together with full-duplex scheme to implement cooperative power domain based non-orthogonal multiple access in small-cell system of the heterogeneous networks. In such small-cell network, a nearby user can be employed as a decode-and-forward with self-energy recycling protocol to assist a far power domain based non-orthogonal multiple access user (cell-edge user). The relay harvests energy from dedicated energy signal sent by a base station, while it still reuses energy from loop self-interference signal. To characterize the performance of the proposed system with respect to where meets weak signal condition, numerous expressions of exact outage probability for far power domain based non-orthogonal multiple access user is derived. Several practical scenarios are performed in three different schemes related to how energy harvesting architecture can be achieved. Based on analytical results, the optimal throughput achieved by the cell-edge user in small-cell network can be observed. Numerical results are presented to validate the accuracy of the derived results.

Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks (WRSNs) are emerging systems to build data acquisition systems to monitor critical areas. It has better features than Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) since in WRSNs, sensors are rechargeable. Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks allow sensors with sensing ability to collect and supply data to the operation center (sink). The Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Network appears as a more advanced solution because it can overcome the challenges and disadvantages such as battery limitation. In practical Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks, there is a budgetary constraint for the different expenditure categories, and therefore the number of used mobile chargers needs to be minimized. We investigate the problem of scheduling the minimum number of mobile chargers to replenish energy all sensors in a WRSN such that the network can be operated without limitations, and the total number of used chargers is minimized, referred to as the Periodic Energy Replenishment with Minimum Mobile Charger (PERMMC) problem. We design a new algorithm, namely the Mobile Charger Scheduling Algorithm (MCSA) to address the PERMMC problem. Finally, we conduct extensive simulations and provide analyses to demonstrate the performance of MCSA.

This paper investigates a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique by employing device-to-device (D2D) transmission in small-cell networks. More specifically, the D2D transmission combines the relay selection model from a group of macro base stations (MBS) with the D2D mode in in small-cell network to form a D2D-NOMA system. Such D2D transmission needs assistance from multiple MBS and the small-cell base station (SBS) using decode-and-forward (DF) techniques. In this context, full-duplex (FD) is adopted at intermediate nodes. Furthermore, there are two possible scenarios in practice including perfect channel state information (CSI) and imperfect CSI that need to be studied to examine performance degradation in such considered network. To evaluate system performance, we derive expressions of outage probability for D2D user. Our study results show that the proposed network with more MBSs selection can improve the outage performance compared to the conventional orthogonal multiple access (OMA) scheme. Finally, numerical results confirms the accuracy of the derived expressions.

Objective: In this paper, Decode-and-Forward (DF) mode is deployed in the Relay Selection (RS) scheme to provide better performance in cooperative downlink Non-orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) networks. In particular, evaluation regarding the impact of the number of multiple relays on outage performance is presented. Methods: As main parameter affecting cooperative NOMA performance, we consider the scenario of the fixed power allocations and the varying number of relays. In addition, the expressions of outage probabilities are the main metric to examine separated NOMA users. By matching related results between simulation and analytical methods, the exactness of derived formula can be verified. Results: The intuitive main results show that in such cooperative NOMA networks, the higher the number of relays equipped, the better the system performance can be achieved. Conclusion: DF mode is confirmed as a reasonable selection scheme to improve the transmission quality in NOMA. In future work, we will introduce new relay selections to achieve improved performance.

In this paper, we propose a unified framework for hybrid satellite/unmanned aerial vehicle (HS-UAV) terrestrial non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks, where satellite aims to communicate with ground users with the aid of a decode-forward (DF) UAV relay by using NOMA protocol. All users are randomly deployed to follow a homogeneous Poisson point process (PPP), which is modeled by the stochastic geometry approach. To reap the benefits of satellite and UAV, the links of both satellite-to-UAV and UAV-to-ground user are assumed to experience Rician fading. More practically, we assume that perfect channel state information (CSI) is infeasible at the receiver, as well as the distance-determined path-loss. To characterize the performance of the proposed framework, we derive analytical approximate closed-form expressions of the outage probability (OP) for the far user and the near user under the condition of imperfect CSI. Also, the system throughput under delay-limited transmission mode is evaluated and discussed. In order to obtain more insights, the asymptotic behavior is explored in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) region and the diversity orders are obtained and discussed. To further improve the system performance, based on the derived approximations, we optimize the location of the UAV to maximize the sum rate by minimizing the average distance between the UAV and users. The simulated numerical results show that: $i$ ) there are error floors for the far and the near users due to the channel estimation error; $ii$ ) the outage probability decreases as the Rician factor $K$ increasing, and $iii$ ) the outage performance and system throughput performance can be further improved considerably by carefully selecting the location of the UAV.

This article studies the wireless systems by implementing the full-duplex (FD) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) relay to allow two nearby base stations joint communicate to distant users. The non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) assisted networks and design of multiple-antenna users are considered in order to improve the users' performance. To overcome obstacles in transmission environment, such a model of the uplink (UL) and the downlink (DL) relying on UAV relay is suitable to forward signals to far users. Moreover, practical scenario of imperfect successive interference cancellation (SIC) at each receiver is considered as main reason of degraded performance. To evaluate specific performance metric, we derive the closed-form expressions of outage probability. In addition, the throughput in delay-limited transmission mode of UAV relay assisted UL/DL NOMA system is also considered thoroughly. The derivations and results showed that the higher number of antennas at users could effectively improve the system throughput and reduce the outage probability. The numerical simulation results further indicate the effectiveness of the proposed system and the correctness of theoretical analysis. Web of Science 8 187007 186993

To improve the utilization of spectrum and system capacity, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is considered as a promising multiple access method for emerging communication technologies. Its advantageous benefits are implemented in two-way wireless networks. Power allocation factors assigned to multiple users play a key role in the successful deployment of fairness balance in NOMA. This paper considers fixed power allocation, and performance degradation is predicted in worse situation in which non-optimal power scheme and the imperfect channel state information (CSI) happen. More challenging issue happens in this system, and this paper addresses the situation of NOMA supporting multi-pair of users, in which group of users can communicate to other users to achieve acceptable throughout in two kinds of mode, i.e. delay-limited mode and delay-tolerant mode. Two performance metrics have been considered, namely, ergodic rate and outage probability. For both metrics, we derived closed-form analytical expressions as well as asymptotic performance. Numerical results show that the proposed system presents benefits to cellular networks by extending ability to serve more users who have different demands on data communication. Monte Carlo simulations are provided throughout to validate the accuracy of the derived analytical expressions.

Satellite communication systems need to be integrated with emerging small-cell network to provide seamless connectivity and high-speed broadband access for mobile users in future wireless networks. In this paper, we study a hybrid satellite-terrestrial relay system (HSTRS) employing small cell transmission under interference constraint with macro-cell users. To characterize such HSTRS-assisted small-cell network, Shadowed-Rician fading for satellite links and Nakagami-m fading for terrestrial links are adopted. We further deploy non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to improve spectrum efficiency. To provide performance analysis, we derive exact formulas for outage probability and throughput of the considered HSTRS, and further examine its achievable diversity order. More importantly, we conduct the performance analysis by indicating performance gaps among two users, and such a gap depends on power allocation factors.We evaluate key performance metrics through the derived analytical expressions to provide useful framework of HSTRN and to characterize the impact of interference in different cells, and integer values of the per-hop fading severity parameters. The useful guidelines are introduced in the design of futuristic HSTRS for small-cell communications. Web of Science 8 188537 188526

In conventional cognitive radio (CR), the users in secondary network (SN) can only access the idle spectrum when users in primary network (PN) are absent. This novel strategy provides higher spectrum efficiency when detecting the presence of the PN. Hence, spectrum utilization of the traditional scheme can be further improved as exploiting application of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). As combination of CR and NOMA, such CR-NOMA has been proposed to improve spectrum efficiency to adapt to requirements in 5G communications. In this study, the relaying scheme is employed in the SN of the proposed CR-NOMA and the relay is allowed to energy harvesting (EH) from the secondary transmitter to serve signal forwarding to distant secondary users. With this regard, the complex model of EH-assisted CR-NOMA is explored in outage behavior and throughput performance as awareness on imperfect successive interference cancellation (SIC) at the receiver. As most important results, the exact closed-form of the exact outage probability is derived for each NOMA destination by assuming that the channel coefficients among considered links follow Rayleigh distribution. Furthermore, performance gap between two NOMA users can be controlled by various parameters such as transmit power, energy harvesting coefficients and levels of imperfect SIC. Simulation results verify our analytical results.

In this article, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-aided non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network along with uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) transmissions is investigated. A group of sources intend to communicate with a group of destinations over Nakagami-m fading channels. Decode-and-Forward (DF) protocol is adopted at the relay (UAV plays the role of relay) while successive interference cancellation (SIC) is required at destinations (receivers) for signal detection, e.g., imperfect SIC (ipSIC) and perfect SIC (pSIC) are studied. The UAV relay benefits from the modes of full-duplex/half-duplex (FD/HD). We then derive analytical expressions of outage probability as main metric. Simulations are conducted to valid the analytical expressions. Moreover, the levels of the effectiveness of the FD mode and pSIC case are demonstrated through analysis and simulation and then compared with those of their counterparts. Numerical results are presented to validate the effectiveness of the proposed UAV-aided NOMA transmission strategies. Web of Science 8 164364 164347

In this study, the performance of a secondary network in cognitive radio (CR) is studied in the context of vehicle-to-everything (V2X). The non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is effectively applied in this new system model, namely CR-assisted NOMA-V2X, and it is beneficial to serve group of vehicles. In our proposed system, two schemes related to vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) transmissions are further considered to enhance performance of the vehicle that needs higher quality of service (QoS). However, the degradation performance can be predicted by evaluating downlink under impacts from interference from the primary network, imperfect channel state information (CSI) and imperfect successive interference cancellation (SIC). The outage performance gap among two vehicles exists since different power allocation factors were assigned to them. To validate the system performance, the outage probability is first derived in exact and approximate forms and then the throughput can be further achieved. The optimal throughput can be obtained by numerical simulations. Simulation results are provided to verify the correctness of the derived expressions and it exhibits advantages of the proposed CR-assisted NOMA-V2X system in terms of outage probability and the throughput.

As a promising technique, power beacon provides ability of wireless energy transfer to relaying devices in Internet of Things (IoT) to serve far devices with respect to low latency and high spectrum efficiency manner. Mobile edge computing (MEC) enables smart devices to offload parts of their computation-workloads to the cellular base stations associated with edge servers. This paper introduces a promising multiple access technique, namely non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) to provide communication service between the base station associated with MEC and far IoT devices. In this paper, we indicate that the multiple power beacons (PBs) benefits to uplink of NOMA-MEC system with the wireless powered IoT. More antennas equipped at smart device and more PBs exhibit reasonable outage performance for the considered system. The simulation results reveal in two folds: (1) our proposed scheme can simultaneously achieve higher spectrum efficiency and ensure prolong lifetime of IoT devices; (2) the mobility of relay leads to select PB appropriately and hence the suitable scheme is realized as comparing two schemes related to ability of energy harvesting and acceptable outage behavior.

In this paper, we design and investigate a novel uplink/downlink (UL/DL) non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) network using a common relay. Instead of successive interference cancellation (SIC) for UL/DL NOMA systems with fixed decoding order based on the statistical channel state information (CSI), we adopt the dynamic decoding order according to power level of received signals. Specifically, by exploiting the CSI-based dynamic decoding order, better fairness can be achieved and applicable. This decoding scheme is highly suitable for implementing a NOMA system in practice. The closed-form expressions for the users' outage probabilities are derived, and then an asymptotic analysis is carried out. Insightful discussions with diversity order are provided. Simulations are performed to corroborate the exactness of the theoretical analysis. Web of Science 8 143643 143632

In this paper, we investigate the reliability and security of cooperative dual-hop non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) for internet-of-thing (IoT) networks, in which the transceivers consider a detrimental factor of in-phase and quadrature-phase imbalance (IQI). The communication between the source and destination is accomplished through a decode-and-forward (DF) relay in the presence of an eavesdropper. In order to characterize the performance of the considered system, exact analytical expressions for the outage probability (OP) and intercept probability (IP) are derived in closed-form. Furthermore, to better understanding the performance of the considered system, we further derive the asymptotic expressions of OP in the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) regime and IP at the high main eavesdropping ratio (MER) region. A large number of analysis and Monte Carlo simulation results show that the existence of IQI usually increases the corresponding OP and reduces the IP, which means that reduces the reliability of the system and improves the security. In addition, the provided results provide useful insights into the trade-off between reliability and security of secure cooperative communication systems.

This paper investigates non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), cooperative relaying, and energy harvesting to support device-to-device (D2D) transmission. In particular, we deploy multiple relay nodes and a cell-center D2D device which can operate in full-duplex (FD) or half-duplex (HD) mode to communicate with a cell-edge D2D device. In this context, there are two possible signal transmission paths from the base station (BS) to the far D2D user either through multiple decode-and-forward (DF) relay nodes or through a near D2D user. Consequently, we propose three schemes to support D2D-NOMA systems, namely non-energy harvesting relaying (Non-EHR), energy harvesting relaying (EHR) and quantize-map-forward relaying (QMFR) schemes. For each of the proposed schemes, closed-form expressions of the outage probabilities of both D2D users are derived. Extensive Monte-Carlo simulation results are provided to validate the derived analytical expressions. The study results show that the proposed schemes can improve the outage performance compared to conventional orthogonal multiple access (OMA) schemes. Moreover, it is shown that the Non-EHR scheme achieves the best outage performance among the three considered schemes.

Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications are regarded as the key technology in future vehicular networks. V2X features promising benefits in providing efficient and reliable massive connections, improving traffic efficiency and safety, as well as supporting in-vehicle entertainment and other functions. Recently, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is further known as a promising solution in the fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication systems. Such NOMA has drawn much attention because of its ability to significantly improve the network throughput and lower the accessing and transmission latency to meet the quality-of-service (QoS) requirements of many 5G-enabled applications. In this respect, this paper first considers a full-duplex (FD) transmission mode together with the Roadside Unit (RSU) selection scheme in a NOMA-V2X networks since relay selection based NOMA network is introduced as technique to increase the ergodic capacity. In the considered NOMA-V2X systems, the vehicles enable device-to-device (D2D) transmission mode to permit two nearby vehicles communicate at close distances. To further robust performance, the vehicle requires relaying transmission in group of RSUs which tight connected with a cellular network. Secondly, we compare ergodic rate performance of two vehicles in specific group. Finally, we evaluate the ergodic performance by deriving the exact and closed-form expressions of ergodic rate in various scenarios. The results show that ergodic rate improvement can be achieved by increasing the number of RSUs and limiting impact of self-interference due to the FD mode.

A single-tier downlink Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) network is considered in this paper where analytical framework is given for performance evaluation. Particularly, the outage probability at the downlink users is studied under the impact of imperfect Channel State Information (CSI). The inter-cell interference and the intra-cell interference are also taken into consideration to capture practical behaviors of the proposed system. Further, we also adopt the Poisson Point Process (PPP) to model the location of the base stations and the downlink users in this work. For the imperfect CSI scenario, the results point out that the more times the user spends on performing interference cancellation, the more severe the user is affected by channel estimation error and vice versa. The results for the outage probability expressed in the analytical-forms are then confirmed by the Monte Carlo simulations.

In this article, we introduce a small-cell network operating in the context of heterogeneous cellular networks for both downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) by deploying three techniques of full-duplex transmission mode, energy harvesting, and power domain-based non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) schemes. Compared to the conventional half-duplex orthogonal multiple access (OMA) scheme that has been widely implemented in current wireless communication systems, the full-duplex (FD) NOMA relying on energy harvesting scheme has a great potential to further enhance the system performance in terms of connectivity capability, spectral efficiency and outage performance. In the proposed two-user small-cell relying on NOMA scheme, the small-cell base station first transfers an energy-bearing signal to serve the two users in the DL phase. Later, an energy harvesting technique is proceeded to encourage the strong user and the weak user to transmit their messages in the UL phase in a FD manner. However, one major challenge related to the FD strategy is the self-interference signal due to a signal leakage from the terminal's output to the input. Besides that, the interference from macro-cell users is also main reason of degradation of the system performance. In this article, we derive analytical expressions to describe the system's performance in terms of the outage probability and throughput. Moreover, extensive numerical simulations are performed to compare and highlight the performance of the proposed small-cell network with several practical scenarios.

The future of wireless communications looks exciting with the potential new use cases and challenging requirements of future 6th generation (6G) wireless networks. Since the traditional wireless communications, the propagation medium has been perceived as a randomly behaving entity between the transmitter and the receiver, which degrades the quality of the received signal due to the uncontrollable interactions of the transmitted radio waves with the surrounding objects. The recent advent of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) in wireless communications enables, on the other hand, network operators to control the radio waves (the scattering, reflection, and refraction characteristics) to eliminate the negative effects of natural wireless propagation. Recent results have revealed that non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) benefits from RIS mechanism which can effectively provide effective transmissions. Motivated by the potential of these emerging technologies, we study the impact of hardware impairment in RIS-aided NOMA system in term of performance metrics. We then derive analytical expressions of outage probability and throughput as main performance metrics. Simulations are conducted to validate the analytical expressions. We find that the number of meta-surfaces in RIS, transmit power at the base station, power allocation factors play important role to demonstrate improvement in system performance of RIS relying on NOMA compared with orthogonal multiple access (OMA). Numerical results are presented to validate the effectiveness of the proposed RIS-aided NOMA transmission strategies.

This paper considers cognitive radio (CR) inspired non-orthogonal multiple-access (NOMA). Such NOMA users with performance improvement can be achieved as deploying relay selection schemes. In this investigation, NOMA and CR scheme are considered as promising techniques to introduce new model of CR-NOMA and to improve spectral efficiency and energy efficiency. In this paper, problem of hardware impairment-aware design is studied to evaluate practical performance as deployment of CR-NOMA in practical. Especially, we examine outage performance of secondary network where contains relay selection strategy under limitation of interference of secondary source and secondary relay on primary destination. The closed-form expressions of outage performance are provided as main metric to exhibit performance analysis. Simulation results show that outage performance is till remained by using NOMA compared to the conventional orthogonal multiple access (OMA). It is also indicated that the performance of Opportunistic Relay Selection (ORS) is better than Partial Relay Selection (PRS) scheme.

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