Title
Effective Capacity Analysis of STAR-RIS-Assisted NOMA Networks
Abstract
This letter studies the performance of the simultaneously transmitting and reflecting reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) aided non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) networks in support of ultra-reliable low-latency communications. We adopt effective capacity (EC) as the metric to explore the delay requirements of NOMA users. Specifically, the analytical expressions of the EC are obtained for the network with a pair of NOMA users on the different sides of the STAR-RIS. Furthermore, the high signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) slope and high SNR power offset are invoked to provide asymptotic analysis of the ECs in high SNR. Some insightful conclusions are drawn from the simulations: 1) the EC of near user <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$({U_{n}})$ </tex-math></inline-formula> increases linearly while the EC of far user <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$({U_{m}})$ </tex-math></inline-formula> tends to be a constant in the high SNR; 2) comparing with STAR-orthogonal multiple access and conventional RIS, the use of STAR-RIS NOMA increases the ECs of <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${U_{n}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and overall network; 3) increasing the number of STAR-RIS elements is an effective strategy to improve the ECs of both <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${U_{n}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${U_{m}}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> .
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/LWC.2022.3188443
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Effective capacity (EC),non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA),reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS),simultaneous transmitting and reflecting (STAR)
Journal
11
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
9
2162-2337
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
12
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Huiling Liu100.34
Geng Li200.34
Xingwang Li3285.86
Yuanwei Liu42162131.65
Gaojian Huang500.68
Zhiguo Ding67031399.47