The application of Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access(NOMA) technology into satelliteaerial-ground integrated networks can meet the requirements of ultra-high rate and massive connectivity for the Sixth-Generation(6G) com...The application of Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access(NOMA) technology into satelliteaerial-ground integrated networks can meet the requirements of ultra-high rate and massive connectivity for the Sixth-Generation(6G) communication systems. We consider an uplink NOMA scenario for such a satellite-aerial-ground integrated network where multiple users communicate with satellite under the help of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) as an aerial relay equipped with a phased array. Supposing that buffer-aided decode-and-forward protocol is adopted at the UAV relay, we first formulate an optimization problem to maximize Ergodic Sum Rate(ESR) of the considered system subject to individual power constraint and quality-of-service constraint of each user.Then, with known imperfect channel state information of each user, we propose a joint power allocation and robust Beam Forming(BF) iterative algorithm to maximize ESR for the user-to-UAV link. Besides, to take the advantages of Free-Space Optical(FSO) and millimeter Wave(mmWave)communications, we present a switch-based hybrid FSO/mmWave scheme and a robust BF algorithm for the UAV-to-satellite link to achieve higher rate. Moreover, a closed-form ESR expression is derived. Finally, the effectiveness and correctness of the proposed solutions are verified by numerical simulations, and the performance evaluation results show that the proposed solutions not only achieve performance enhancement and robustness, but also outperform the orthogonal multiple access significantly.展开更多
基金co-supported by the Key International Cooperation Research Project,China(No.61720106003)Jiangsu Province Science and Technology Project,China(No.BE2021031)+4 种基金the Shanghai Aerospace Science and Technology Innovation Foundation,China(No.SAST2019-095)NUPTSF(No.NY220111)the Research Project of Science and Technology on Complex Electronic System Simulation Laboratory,China(No.DXZT-JC-ZZ-2019-009)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61801234)the Postgraduate Research and Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province,China(No.KYCX210739)。
文摘The application of Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access(NOMA) technology into satelliteaerial-ground integrated networks can meet the requirements of ultra-high rate and massive connectivity for the Sixth-Generation(6G) communication systems. We consider an uplink NOMA scenario for such a satellite-aerial-ground integrated network where multiple users communicate with satellite under the help of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(UAV) as an aerial relay equipped with a phased array. Supposing that buffer-aided decode-and-forward protocol is adopted at the UAV relay, we first formulate an optimization problem to maximize Ergodic Sum Rate(ESR) of the considered system subject to individual power constraint and quality-of-service constraint of each user.Then, with known imperfect channel state information of each user, we propose a joint power allocation and robust Beam Forming(BF) iterative algorithm to maximize ESR for the user-to-UAV link. Besides, to take the advantages of Free-Space Optical(FSO) and millimeter Wave(mmWave)communications, we present a switch-based hybrid FSO/mmWave scheme and a robust BF algorithm for the UAV-to-satellite link to achieve higher rate. Moreover, a closed-form ESR expression is derived. Finally, the effectiveness and correctness of the proposed solutions are verified by numerical simulations, and the performance evaluation results show that the proposed solutions not only achieve performance enhancement and robustness, but also outperform the orthogonal multiple access significantly.
