Joint Design for Simultaneously Transmitting and Reflecting (STAR) RIS Assisted NOMA Systems

In this paper, a novel simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system is proposed, where the STAR-RIS can simultaneously transmit and reflect the incident signals. Our objective is to maximize the achievable sum rate by jointly optimizing the decoding order, power allocation coefficients, active beamforming, transmission and reflection beamformings. However, the formulated problem is non-convex with intricately coupled variables. To tackle this challenge, a suboptimal two-layer iterative algorithm is proposed. Specifically, in the inner-layer iteration, for a given decoding order, the power allocation coefficients, active beamforming, transmission and reflection beamformings are optimized alternatively. For the outer-layer iteration, the decoding order of NOMA users in each cluster is updated with the solutions obtained from the inner-layer iteration. Simulation results are provided to demonstrate that the proposed STAR-RSI-NOMA system outperforms conventional RIS assisted systems.

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