Waveform-domain NOMA: The future of multiple access


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Sahin M. M., Arslan H.

2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops, ICC Workshops 2020, Dublin, İrlanda, 7 - 11 Haziran 2020 identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1109/iccworkshops49005.2020.9145077
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Dublin
  • Basıldığı Ülke: İrlanda
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Non-orthogonal multiple access, OFDM, OFDMIM, Power-domain NOMA, Waveform-domain NOMA
  • İstanbul Medipol Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This paper introduces a novel non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) concept named waveform-domain NOMA, which proposes the coexistence of different waveforms in the same resource element (RE). Regarding the demands of each user equipments (UEs), appropriate waveforms are assigned intelligently and decoded at the receiver side properly. Since the performance gain of power-domain NOMA compared to multi-user multiple-input-multiple-output (MU-MIMO) degrades in the case of successive interference cancellation (SIC) and channel estimation errors, NOMA is not considered as a work-item in 3GPP anymore. The novel waveform-domain NOMA concept provides a remedy for the problems of the power-domain NOMA scheme as well as flexibility in terms of reliability, latency, and energy efficiency. To mitigate SIC errors, low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes aided soft interference cancellation technique is used. As numerically evaluated, the proposed waveform-domain NOMA scheme outperforms the conventional power-domain NOMA in the power-balanced scenario.