119 research outputs found
How URLLC can Benefit from NOMA-based Retransmissions
Among the new types of connectivity unleashed by the emerging 5G wireless
systems, Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communication (URLLC) is perhaps the most
innovative, yet challenging one. Ultra-reliability requires high levels of
diversity, however, the reactive approach based on packet retransmission in
HARQ protocols should be applied carefully to conform to the stringent latency
constraints. The main premise of this paper is that the NOMA principle can be
used to achieve highly efficient retransmissions by allowing concurrent use of
wireless resources in the uplink. We introduce a comprehensive solution that
accommodates multiple intermittently active users, each with its own HARQ
process. The performance is investigated under two different assumptions about
the Channel State Information (CSI) availability: statistical and
instantaneous. The results show that NOMA can indeed lead to highly efficient
system operation compared to the case in which all HARQ processes are run
orthogonally
Performance Analysis of Uplink Rate-Splitting Multiple Access with Hybrid ARQ
Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has attracted a lot of attention as a
general and powerful multiple access scheme. In the uplink, instead of encoding
the whole message into one stream, a user can split its message into two parts
and encode them into two streams before transmitting a superposition of these
two streams. The base station (BS) uses successive interference cancellation
(SIC) to decode the streams and reconstruct the original messages. Focusing on
the packet transmission reliability, we investigate the features of RSMA in the
context of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ), a well-established mechanism
for enhancing reliability. This work proposes a HARQ scheme for uplink RSMA
with different retransmission times for a two-user scenario and introduces a
power allocation strategy for the two split streams. The results show that
compared with non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and frequency division
multiple access (FDMA), RSMA outperforms them in terms of error probability and
power consumption. The results show that RSMA with HARQ has the potential to
improve the reliability and efficiency of wireless communication systems
Performance of NOMA systems with HARQ-CC in finite blocklength
Abstract. With the advent of new use-cases requiring high reliability and low-latency, transmission with finite blocklength becomes inevitable to reduce latency. In contrast to classical information-theoretic principles, the use of finite blocklength results in a non-negligible decoder error probability. Hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) procedures are used to improve the accuracy in decoding by exploiting time-diversity at the expense of increased latency. Thus, achieving high reliability and low-latency are Pareto-optimal, which calls for a trade-off between the two. Concurrently, non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) has gained widespread attention in research due to the ability to outperform its counterpart, orthogonal multiple access (OMA) in terms of spectral efficiency and user fairness.
This thesis investigates the performance of a two-user downlink NOMA system using HARQ with chase combining (HARQ-CC) in finite blocklength unifying the three enablers. First, an analytical framework is developed by deriving closed-form approximations for the individual average block error rate (BLER) of the near and the far user. Based upon that, the performance of NOMA is discussed in comparison to OMA, which draws the conclusion that NOMA outperforms OMA in terms of user fairness. Further, asymptotic expressions for average BLER are derived, which are used to devise an algorithm to determine such minimum blocklength and power allocation coefficients for NOMA that satisfies reliability targets for the users. NOMA has a lower blocklength in high transmit signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) conditions, leading to lower latency than OMA when reliability requirements in terms of BLER for the two users are in the order of 10^(-5)
Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request for Downlink Rate-Splitting Multiple Access
This work investigates the design of Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ)
strategies for downlink Rate-Splitting Multiple Access (RSMA). The existence of
private and common stream as well as their conditioning for Successive
Interference Cancellation (SIC), gives rise to an expanded set of opportunities
for retransmission of failed packets. Specifically, we devise a scheme in which
the retransmissions are scheduled through the common stream, which offers a
higher success probability. With this, the common stream needs to carry both
new and retransmitted bits, which leads to a layered HARQ (L-HARQ) strategy
which is capable of trading off throughput and reliability. Simulation results
demonstrate that the devised HARQ scheme outperforms RSMA with conventional
HARQ, where each retransmission is handled independently through its own
stream. It also helps in closing the throughput gap between HARQ and Adaptive
Modulation and Coding (AMC) in the high Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) regime
while also achieving a decreased Packet Error Rate (PER) and a lower latency
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