arxiveess.SP2026-06-27
PASS-Assisted RSMA under Imperfect SIC: Joint Antenna Activation and Resource Allocation
Saeid Pakravan, Imene Trigui, Wessam Ajib, Wei-Ping Zhu
The performance of rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) can be severely affected by imperfect successive interference cancellation (SIC) in practical wireless systems. This paper investigates a downlink pinching antenna system (PASS)-assisted RSMA network under imperfect SIC, wh…