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ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2024

Advancing Non-Line-of-Sight Communication: A Comprehensive Review of State-of-the-Art Technologies and the Role of Energy Harvesting.

Yasir Al-Ghafri, Hafiz M Asif, Naser Tarhuni, Zia Nadir

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Review in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yasir Al-GhafriDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat 123, Oman.
Hafiz M AsifDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat 123, Oman.ORCID 0000-0002-8838-9457
Naser TarhuniDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat 123, Oman.ORCID 0000-0002-7690-8168
Zia NadirDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat 123, Oman.ORCID 0009-0004-5711-8955

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Enhancing spectral efficiency in non-line-of-sight (NLoS) environments is essential as 5G networks evolve, surpassing 4G systems with high information rates and minimal interference. Instead of relying on traditional Orthogonal Multiple Access (OMA) systems to tackle issues caused by NLoS, advanced wireless networks adopt innovative models like Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA), cooperative relaying, Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO), and intelligent reflective surfaces (IRSs). Therefore, this study comprehensively analyzes these techniques for their potential to improve communication reliability and spectral efficiency in NLoS scenarios. Specifically, it encompasses an analysis of cooperative relaying strategies for their potential to improve reliability and spectral efficiency in NLoS environments through user cooperation. It also examines various MIMO configurations to address NLoS challenges via spatial diversity. Additionally, it investigates IRS settings, which can alter signal paths to enhance coverage and reduce interference and analyze the role of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in establishing flexible communication infrastructure in difficult environments. This paper also surveys effective energy harvesting (EH) strategies that can be integrated with NOMA for efficient and reliable energy-communication networks. Our findings show that incorporating these technologies with NOMA not only enhances connectivity and spectral efficiency but also promotes a stable and environmentally sustainable data communication system.

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cooperative NOMAenergy harvestingintelligent reflecting surfacemultiple input multiple outputnon-orthogonal multiple accessunmanned aerial vehicles

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PMID39066068
PMCPMC11280850

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