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Movable-Element STARS-Assisted NOMA Communications

Jingjing Zhao·Yiheng Zhang·Kaiquan Cai·Xidong Mu·Yuanwei Liu
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This paper proposes a movable-element (ME) enabled simultaneously transmitting and reflecting surface (ME-STARS)-assisted non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) communication system, where the positions of STARS elements can be flexibly reconfigured to introduce additional spatial degrees-of-freedom. Our objective is to maximize the sum achievable rate by jointly optimizing the active beamforming at the base station (BS) as well as the passive beamforming and MEs positions at the STARS. To tackle the resultant highly-coupled non-convex optimization problem, an alternating optimization-based algorithm is proposed, in which the original problem is decomposed into three subproblems. For the BS and ME-STARS beamforming subproblems, the successive convex approximation method is employed. For the MEs positions optimization, penalty terms are incorporated into the objective function to handle the constraints, thereby transforming the original problem into an unconstrained formulation. The gradient descent algorithm is subsequently applied to iteratively approach the sub-optimal solution. Numerical results demonstrate that: i) ME-STARS-assisted NOMA communications achieve superior performance compared to the NOMA communications assisted by STARS with fixed-position elements; and ii) the performance gain brought by the MEs is significant even with restricted moving region size.

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Jingjing Zhao, Yiheng Zhang, Kaiquan Cai, Xidong Mu, Yuanwei Liu. 2026-09-25. Movable-Element STARS-Assisted NOMA Communications. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30800

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