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Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for FSO Backhauling
We consider a free space optical (FSO) backhauling system which consists of
two base stations (BSs) and one central unit (CU). We propose to employ
non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) for FSO backhauling where both BSs
transmit at the same time and in the same frequency band to the same
photodetector at the CU. We develop a dynamic NOMA scheme which determines the
optimal decoding order as a function of the channel state information at the CU
and the quality of service requirements of the BSs, such that the outage
probabilities of both BSs are jointly minimized. Moreover, we analyze the
performance of the proposed NOMA scheme in terms of the outage probability over
Gamma-Gamma FSO turbulence channels. We further derive closed-form expressions
for the outage probability for the high signal-to-noise ratio regime. Our
simulation results confirm the analytical derivations and reveal that the
proposed dynamic NOMA scheme significantly outperforms orthogonal transmission
and existing NOMA schemes.Comment: This paper has been submitted to IEEE WCNC 201