33 research outputs found
Multidimensional Index Modulation for 5G and Beyond Wireless Networks
This study examines the flexible utilization of existing IM techniques in a
comprehensive manner to satisfy the challenging and diverse requirements of 5G
and beyond services. After spatial modulation (SM), which transmits information
bits through antenna indices, application of IM to orthogonal frequency
division multiplexing (OFDM) subcarriers has opened the door for the extension
of IM into different dimensions, such as radio frequency (RF) mirrors, time
slots, codes, and dispersion matrices. Recent studies have introduced the
concept of multidimensional IM by various combinations of one-dimensional IM
techniques to provide higher spectral efficiency (SE) and better bit error rate
(BER) performance at the expense of higher transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx)
complexity. Despite the ongoing research on the design of new IM techniques and
their implementation challenges, proper use of the available IM techniques to
address different requirements of 5G and beyond networks is an open research
area in the literature. For this reason, we first provide the dimensional-based
categorization of available IM domains and review the existing IM types
regarding this categorization. Then, we develop a framework that investigates
the efficient utilization of these techniques and establishes a link between
the IM schemes and 5G services, namely enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB),
massive machine-type communications (mMTC), and ultra-reliable low-latency
communication (URLLC). Additionally, this work defines key performance
indicators (KPIs) to quantify the advantages and disadvantages of IM techniques
in time, frequency, space, and code dimensions. Finally, future recommendations
are given regarding the design of flexible IM-based communication systems for
5G and beyond wireless networks.Comment: This work has been submitted to Proceedings of the IEEE for possible
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Capacity-Achieving MIMO-NOMA: Iterative LMMSE Detection
This paper considers a low-complexity iterative Linear Minimum Mean Square
Error (LMMSE) multi-user detector for the Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output
system with Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (MIMO-NOMA), where multiple
single-antenna users simultaneously communicate with a multiple-antenna base
station (BS). While LMMSE being a linear detector has a low complexity, it has
suboptimal performance in multi-user detection scenario due to the mismatch
between LMMSE detection and multi-user decoding. Therefore, in this paper, we
provide the matching conditions between the detector and decoders for
MIMO-NOMA, which are then used to derive the achievable rate of the iterative
detection. We prove that a matched iterative LMMSE detector can achieve (i) the
optimal capacity of symmetric MIMO-NOMA with any number of users, (ii) the
optimal sum capacity of asymmetric MIMO-NOMA with any number of users, (iii)
all the maximal extreme points in the capacity region of asymmetric MIMO-NOMA
with any number of users, (iv) all points in the capacity region of two-user
and three-user asymmetric MIMO-NOMA systems. In addition, a kind of practical
low-complexity error-correcting multiuser code, called irregular
repeat-accumulate code, is designed to match the LMMSE detector. Numerical
results shows that the bit error rate performance of the proposed iterative
LMMSE detection outperforms the state-of-art methods and is within 0.8dB from
the associated capacity limit.Comment: Accepted by IEEE TSP, 16 pages, 9 figures. This is the first work
that proves the low-complexity iterative receiver (Parallel Interference
Cancellation) can achieve the capacity of multi-user MIMO systems. arXiv
admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1604.0831
Hybrid MIMO: a new transmission method for simultaneously achieving spatial multiplexing and diversity gains in MIMO systems
Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) technology has evolved over the past few years into a technology with great potential to drive the direction of future wireless communications. MIMO technology has become a solid reality when massive MIMO systems (MIMO with large number of antennas and transceivers) were commercially deployed in several countries across the world in the recent past. Moreover, MIMO has been integrated into state-of-the-art paradigms such as fifth-generation (5G) networks as one of the main enabling technologies. MIMO possesses many attractive and highly desirable properties such as spatial multiplexing, diversity gains, and adaptive beamforming gains that leads to high data rates, enhanced reliability, and other enhancements. Nevertheless, beyond 5G technologies demand wireless communication systems with, among other properties, immensely higher data rates and better reliability simultaneously at the same time. In this work, a new, novel MIMO technique for simultaneously achieving multiplexing and diversity gains as well as completely eliminating any processing at the MIMO receiver, leading to advantages such as low complexity and low power consumption, is proposed. The proposed technique employs the design of interference-canceling matrices, which are calculated from the channels between the transceiver antennas, where the matrices are employed at the base station to help achieve multiplexing and diversity gains simultaneously. The novelty and efficiency of the introduced paradigm is demonstrated via mathematical models and validated by Monte Carlo simulations. Results indicate that the proposed system outperforms conventional MIMO models.No sponso
The Road to Next-Generation Multiple Access: A 50-Year Tutorial Review
The evolution of wireless communications has been significantly influenced by
remarkable advancements in multiple access (MA) technologies over the past five
decades, shaping the landscape of modern connectivity. Within this context, a
comprehensive tutorial review is presented, focusing on representative MA
techniques developed over the past 50 years. The following areas are explored:
i) The foundational principles and information-theoretic capacity limits of
power-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) are characterized, along
with its extension to multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO)-NOMA. ii) Several
MA transmission schemes exploiting the spatial domain are investigated,
encompassing both conventional space-division multiple access (SDMA)/MIMO-NOMA
systems and near-field MA systems utilizing spherical-wave propagation models.
iii) The application of NOMA to integrated sensing and communications (ISAC)
systems is studied. This includes an introduction to typical NOMA-based
downlink/uplink ISAC frameworks, followed by an evaluation of their performance
limits using a mutual information (MI)-based analytical framework. iv) Major
issues and research opportunities associated with the integration of MA with
other emerging technologies are identified to facilitate MA in next-generation
networks, i.e., next-generation multiple access (NGMA). Throughout the paper,
promising directions are highlighted to inspire future research endeavors in
the realm of MA and NGMA.Comment: 43 pages, 38 figures; Submitted to Proceedings of the IEE
Nonorthogonal Multiple Access for 5G and Beyond
This work was
supported in part by the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
(EPSRC) under Grant EP/N029720/1 and Grant EP/N029720/2. The work of
L. Hanzo was supported by the ERC Advanced Fellow Grant Beam-me-up
Resource allocation in non-orthogonal multiple access technologies for 5G networks and beyond.
Doctoral Degree. University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.The increasing demand of mobile and device connectivity poses challenging requirements for 5G wireless communications, such as high energy- and spectral-efficiency and low latency. This necessitates a shift from orthogonal multiple access (OMA) to Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access
(NOMA) techniques, namely, power-domain NOMA (PD-NOMA) and code-domain NOMA (CD-NOMA). The basic idea behind NOMA schemes is to co-multiplex different users on the same resource elements (time slot, OFDMA sub-carrier, or spreading code) via power domain (PD) or code domain (CD) at the transmitter while permitting controllable interference, and their successful multi-user detection (MUD) at the receiver albeit, increased computational complexity. In this work, an analysis on the performance of the existing NOMA schemes is carried out.
Furthermore, we investigate the feasibility of a proposed uplink hybrid-NOMA scheme namely power domain sparse code multiple access (PD-SCMA) that integrates PD-NOMA and CD-NOMA based sparse code multiple access (SCMA) on heterogeneous networks (HetNets). Such hybrid schemes come with resource allocation (RA) challenges namely; codebook allocation, user pairing and power allocation. Therefore, hybrid RA schemes namely: Successive Codebook Ordering Assignment (SCOA) for codebook assignment (CA), opportunistic macro cell user equipment (MUE)- small cell user equipment (SUE) pairing (OMSP) for user pairing (UP), and a QoS-aware power allocation (QAPA) for power allocation (PA) are developed for an energy efficient (EE) system. The performance of the RA schemes is analyzed alongside an analytical RA optimization algorithm. Through numerical results, the proposed schemes show significant improvements in the EE of the small cells in comparison with the prevalent schemes. Additionally, there is significant sum
rate performance improvement over the conventional SCMA and PD-NOMA.
Secondly, we investigate the multiplexing capacity of the hybrid PD-SCMA scheme in HetNets.
Particularly, we investigate and derive closed-form solutions for codebook capacity, MUE multiplexing and power capacity bounds. The system’s performance results into low outage when the system’s point of operation is within the multiplexing bounds. To alleviate the RA challenges of such a system at the transmitter, dual parameter ranking (DPR) and alternate search method (ASM) based RA schemes are proposed. The results show significant capacity gain with DPR-RA in comparison with conventional RA schemes.
Lastly, we investigate the feasibility of integrating the hybrid PD-SCMA with multiple-input multipleoutput (MIMO) technique namely, M-PD-SCMA. The attention to M-PD-SCMA resides in the need of lower number of antennas while preserving the system capacity thanks to the overload in PDSCMA. To enhance spectral efficiency and error performance we propose spatial multiplexing at the transmitter and a low complex joint MUD scheme based on successive interference cancellation (SIC) and expectation propagation algorithm (EPA) at the receiver are proposed. Numerical results exhibit performance benchmark with PD-SCMA schemes and the proposed receiver achieves guaranteed bit error rate (BER) performance with a bounded increase in the number of transmit and receive antennas. Thus, the feasibility of an M-PD-SCMA system is validated