RIS-Assisted Energy-Efficient LEO Satellite Communications with NOMA

KHAN, Wali Ullah; LAGUNAS, Eva; MAHMOOD, Asad; CHATZINOTAS, Symeon; OTTERSTEN, Björn

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RIS-Assisted Energy-Efficient LEO Satellite Communications with NOMA

KHAN, Wali Ullah; LAGUNAS, Eva; MAHMOOD, Asad et al.

2023 • In IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking

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LEO satellite communications; Non-orthogonal Multiple Access; Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

Abstract :

[en] This paper proposes an energy-efficient RIS-assisted downlink NOMA communication for LEO satellite networks. The proposed framework simultaneously optimizes the transmit power of ground terminals of the LEO satellite and the passive beamforming of RIS while ensuring the quality of services. Due to the nature of the considered system and optimization variables, the energy efficiency maximization problem is non-convex. In practice, obtaining the optimal solution for such problems is very challenging. Therefore, we adopt alternating optimization methods to handle the joint optimization in two steps. In step 1, for any given phase shift vector, we calculate satellite transmit power towards each ground terminal using the Lagrangian dual method. Then, in step 2, given the transmit power, we design passive beamforming for RIS by solving the semi-definite programming. We also compare our solution with a benchmark framework having a fixed phase shift design and a conventional NOMA framework without involving RIS. Numerical results show that the proposed optimization framework achieves 21.47% and 54.9% higher energy efficiency compared to the benchmark and conventional frameworks.

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- Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) > SIGCOM - Signal Processing & Communications

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Electrical & electronics engineering

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KHAN, Wali Ullah ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SigCom

LAGUNAS, Eva ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SigCom

MAHMOOD, Asad ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SigCom

CHATZINOTAS, Symeon ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SigCom

OTTERSTEN, Björn ; University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT)

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English

Title :

RIS-Assisted Energy-Efficient LEO Satellite Communications with NOMA

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[en] RIS-Assisted Energy-Efficient LEO Satellite Communications with NOMA

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17 June 2023

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IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking

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2473-2400

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

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Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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Security, Reliability and Trust

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10422

FnR Project :

FNR14767486 - Self-organised Lower Earth Orbit Mega-constellations, 2020 (01/09/2021-31/08/2024) - Symeon Chatzinotas

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MEGA LEO

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