Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Aided Multi-Cell NOMA Networks: A Stochastic Geometry Model

Abstract

By activating blocked users and altering successive interference cancellation (SIC) sequences, reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs) become promising for enhancing non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems. The downlink RIS-aided NOMA networks are investigated via stochastic geometry. We first introduce the unique path loss model for RIS reflecting channels. Then, we evaluate the angle distributions based on a Poisson cluster process (PCP) model, which theoretically demonstrates that the angles of incidence and reflection are uniformly distributed. Additionally, we derive closed-form analytical and asymptotic expressions for coverage probabilities of the paired NOMA users. Lastly, we derive the analytical expressions of the ergodic rate for both of the paired NOMA users and calculate the asymptotic expressions for the typical user. The analytical results indicate that 1) the achievable rates reach an upper limit when the length of RIS increases; 2) exploiting RISs can enhance the path loss intercept to improve the performance without influencing the bandwidth. Our results show that 1) RIS-aided NOMA networks have superior performance than the conventional NOMA networks, and 2) the SIC order in NOMA systems can be altered since RISs are able to change the channel quality of NOMA users.

arXiv commentarXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2006.13260

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