In this study, we deploy design and performance analysis in new system model using a relaying model, energy harvesting, and non-orthogonal multi-access (NOMA) network. It is called such topology as wireless powered NOMA relaying (WPNR). In the proposed model, NOMA will be investigated in two cases including single successive interference cancellation (SIC) and dual SIC. Moreover, the simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) technology can be employed to feed energy to relays who intend to serve far NOMA users. In particular, exact outage probability expressions are provided to performance evaluation. The results from the simulations are used to demonstrate the outage performance of the proposed model in comparison with the current models and to verify correct of derived expressions.

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We investigated the outage performance of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) in satellite-terrestrial systems which contain hardware impairments. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was implemented to forward signals from a satellite to users on the ground. A two-user model was applied to achieve spectral efficiency. In practical, real-life scenarios, the UAV and ground users encounter issues with imperfect hardware. We examined the performance gap between two users experiencing practical problems such as hardware impairment and imperfect successive interference cancellation (SIC). To implement a practical scenario, Shadow-Rician fading was adopted in the satellite links, and Rician fading was employed in the terrestrial links for ground users. In the main results, we derived the closed-form expression of the outage probability, and to evaluate the system performance of two NOMA users, we obtained the approximate expressions for high signal-to-noise ratios (SNR). Finally, we produced Monte-Carlo simulations to verify the analytical expressions and demonstrate the effect of the main system parameters, such as the number of transmit antennas on the satellite, transmit SNR, and level of hardware impairment on the system performance metric.INDEX TERMS non-orthogonal multiple access, satellite-terrestrial systems, outage probability, hardware impairments, UAV

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