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On Hybrid Cascaded RIS-Assisted Downlink NOMA-ISAC Systems

2026 · IEEE Communications Letters · Vol 30, pp. 2810-2814 · 0 citations · 14 references
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Abstract

This letter proposes a hybrid cascaded reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) architecture for downlink non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)-enabled integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems with a dual-functional radar-communication (DFRC) base station, where a passive RIS assists both sensing and phase control while an active RIS provides signal amplification. By jointly optimizing the cascaded passive-active RIS coefficients and NOMA beamforming under radar signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) constraints, we develop a low-complexity alternating optimization framework based on weighted minimum mean-square error (WMMSE), penalty method, and rotation phase algorithm. Closed-form solutions are derived for the active RIS amplification coefficients. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed scheme achieves superior weighted sum-rate and sensing performance compared to dual-passive RIS and orthogonal multiple access (OMA) baselines, revealing a favorable sensing-communication tradeoff.

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