Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for RIS-Enabled Full-Duplex Communications with User Relaying
Abstract
Rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) has emerged as a promising non-orthogonal transmission mechanism to improve spectral- and energy efficiency, and user fairness in multi-antenna broadband channels. To further enhance its performance, in this paper we investigate a novel cooperative RSMA (C-RSMA) transmission framework assisted by reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and user relaying. More specifically, we first formulate the common- and private-rate maximization problem satisfying the transmit power constraint, by jointly optimizing the transmit beamformers at the BS and the reflective beamformer at the RIS. The above formulated problem is an intractable and NP-hard problem as the optimization variables are coupled and the strong residual self-interference (SI) is involved. To conquer the challenge mentioned above, we propose a low-complexity alternative optimization approach to jointly optimize the transmit and reflective beamforming. Simulation results show that our approach is capable of enabling superior sum-rate performance than the RIS-assisted space division multiple access (SDMA), half-duplex RSMA, and SDMA without using RIS schemes.
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BibTeX
@misc{cao2026ratesplitting,
title = {{Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for RIS-Enabled Full-Duplex Communications with User Relaying}},
author = {Yuwen Cao and Hui Wang and Tomoaki Ohtsuki and Shahid Mumtaz},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.18578},
eprint = {2610.18578},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18578},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Rate-Splitting Multiple Access for RIS-Enabled Full-Duplex Communications with User Relaying
AU - Yuwen Cao
AU - Hui Wang
AU - Tomoaki Ohtsuki
AU - Shahid Mumtaz
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/13
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.18578
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18578
AB - Rate splitting multiple access (RSMA) has emerged as a promising non-orthogonal transmission mechanism to improve spectral- and energy efficiency, and user fairness in multi-antenna broadband channels. To further enhance its performance, in this paper we investigate a novel cooperative RSMA (C-RSMA) transmission framework assisted by reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and user relaying. More specifically, we first formulate the common- and private-rate maximization problem satisfying the transmit power constraint, by jointly optimizing the transmit beamformers at the BS and the reflective beamformer at the RIS. The above formulated problem is an intractable and NP-hard problem as the optimization variables are coupled and the strong residual self-interference (SI) is involved. To conquer the challenge mentioned above, we propose a low-complexity alternative optimization approach to jointly optimize the transmit and reflective beamforming. Simulation results show that our approach is capable of enabling superior sum-rate performance than the RIS-assisted space division multiple access (SDMA), half-duplex RSMA, and SDMA without using RIS schemes.
ER -