This paper investigates the performance of NOMA-based hybrid Satellite-Terrestrial relays system (HSTR) using the millimeter wave (mmWave) technology. Furthermore, the relays are equipped with multiple antennas and utilize the amplify and forward (AF) protocol to forward the satellite’s superimposed information to multiple destinations. Then, the rain coefficient is considered as the fading factor of the mmWave band to choose the best relay. We considered the shadowed-Rician fading and Nakagami-m fading for satellite links and terrestrial links respectively, and in addition, we evaluated the shadowing effect for satellite links with two modes of: frequent heavy shadowing (FHS) and average shadowing (AS). With these suggestions, the closed-form outage probability (OP) and approximate ergodic capacity (EC) are derived to evaluate the efficiency of the proposed system. Next contribution of the research is an asymptotic analysis for the OP, which is derived in order to gain additional insight into important system parameters. Finally, the theoretical derivation is validated through simulation results and analyzed the impact of significant parameters. These results demonstrate NOMA’s superiority to the traditional orthogonal multiple access (OMA) method in the proposed system.

We study a hybrid satellite-terrestrial cognitive network (HSTCN) relying on non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) interconnecting a satellite and multiple terrestrial nodes. In this scenario, the long distance communication is achieved by the satellite equipped multiple antennas to send information to a multi-antenna destinations through the base station acting as relay. The secure performance is necessary to study by exploiting the appearance of an eavesdropper attempting to intercept the transmissions from relay to destinations. We explore situation of hardware imperfections in secondary network and deign of multiple antennas need be investigated in term of the physical-layer security by adopting the decode-and-forward (DF) relay strategy. Specifically, we guarantee coverage area by enabling relaying scheme and keep outage probability (OP) performance satisfying required data rates. Moreover, suppose that only the main channels’ state information is known while the wiretap channels’ state information is unavailable due to the passive eavesdropper, we analyze the secrecy performance in term of intercept probability (IP) of the HSTCN by driving the closed-form expressions of such performance metric. Finally, the presented simulation results show that: 1) The outage behaviors of NOMA-based HSTCN network does not depend on transmit signal to noise ratio (SNR) at source at high SNR; 2) Numerical results show that the such system using higher number of transceiver antennas generally outperform the system with less antennas in terms of OP and IP and reasonable selection of parameters is necessary to remain the secrecy performance of such systems; and 3) By allocating different power levels to tow users, the second user has better secure behavior compared with the first user regardless of other set of satellite links or the number of antennas, which means that the superiority of the second user compared with user the first user in terms of OP and IP are same.

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.

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.

In the paper, we present a study on the performance analysis of a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) underlay cognitive hybrid satellite-terrestrial relaying network (CSTRN) and highlight the performance gaps between multiple users. The satellite source communicates with users by enabling cognitive radio scheme to forward signals to secondary destinations on the ground which belong to dedicated groups following the principle of NOMA. In this scenario, the secondary source acts a relay and employs Amplify and Forward (AF) mode to serve distant NOMA users under a given interference constraint. To characterize the transmission environment, the shadowed-Rician fading and Nakagami- m fading models are widely adopted to the relevant hybrid channels. To provide detailed examination of the system performance metrics, we aim to derive closed-form formulas for the outage probability of the secondary destinations in the presence of the primary interference power constraint imposed by the adjacent primary satellite network. Finally, our simulation results showed that a greater number of antennas, better quality of wireless channels and power allocation factors exhibit the main effects on system performance.

In this paper, we investigate a novel power beacon (PB)-aided wireless sensor-powered non-orthogonal multiple-access (NOMA) Internet-of-Things (IoT) network under imperfect channel state information (CSI). Furthermore, the exact expression outage probability (OP) of two IoT users is derived to analyze the performance of the considered network. To give further insight, the expression asymptotic OP and diversity order are also expressed when the transmit power at the PB goes to infinity. Furthermore, a deep neural network (DNN) framework is proposed to concurrently forecast IoT users’ OP in relation to real-time setups for IoT users. Additionally, when compared to the traditional analysis, our created DNN shows the shortest run-time prediction, and the outcomes predicted by the DNN model almost match those of the simulation. In addition, numerical results validate our analysis, simulation, and prediction through a Monte Carlo Simulation. Furthermore, the results show the impact of the main parameter on our proposed system. Finally, these findings show that NOMA performs better than the conventional orthogonal multiple-access (OMA) techniques.