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Optical Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for Visible Light Communication
The proliferation of mobile Internet and connected devices, offering a
variety of services at different levels of performance, represents a major
challenge for the fifth generation wireless networks and beyond. This requires
a paradigm shift towards the development of key enabling techniques for the
next generation wireless networks. In this respect, visible light communication
(VLC) has recently emerged as a new communication paradigm that is capable of
providing ubiquitous connectivity by complementing radio frequency
communications. One of the main challenges of VLC systems, however, is the low
modulation bandwidth of the light-emitting-diodes, which is in the megahertz
range. This article presents a promising technology, referred to as "optical-
non-orthogonal multiple access (O-NOMA)", which is envisioned to address the
key challenges in the next generation of wireless networks. We provide a
detailed overview and analysis of the state-of-the-art integration of O-NOMA in
VLC networks. Furthermore, we provide insights on the potential opportunities
and challenges as well as some open research problems that are envisioned to
pave the way for the future design and implementation of O-NOMA in VLC systems
Rate Splitting for MIMO Wireless Networks: A Promising PHY-Layer Strategy for LTE Evolution
MIMO processing plays a central part towards the recent increase in spectral
and energy efficiencies of wireless networks. MIMO has grown beyond the
original point-to-point channel and nowadays refers to a diverse range of
centralized and distributed deployments. The fundamental bottleneck towards
enormous spectral and energy efficiency benefits in multiuser MIMO networks
lies in a huge demand for accurate channel state information at the transmitter
(CSIT). This has become increasingly difficult to satisfy due to the increasing
number of antennas and access points in next generation wireless networks
relying on dense heterogeneous networks and transmitters equipped with a large
number of antennas. CSIT inaccuracy results in a multi-user interference
problem that is the primary bottleneck of MIMO wireless networks. Looking
backward, the problem has been to strive to apply techniques designed for
perfect CSIT to scenarios with imperfect CSIT. In this paper, we depart from
this conventional approach and introduce the readers to a promising strategy
based on rate-splitting. Rate-splitting relies on the transmission of common
and private messages and is shown to provide significant benefits in terms of
spectral and energy efficiencies, reliability and CSI feedback overhead
reduction over conventional strategies used in LTE-A and exclusively relying on
private message transmissions. Open problems, impact on standard specifications
and operational challenges are also discussed.Comment: accepted to IEEE Communication Magazine, special issue on LTE
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A Survey of Physical Layer Security Techniques for 5G Wireless Networks and Challenges Ahead
Physical layer security which safeguards data confidentiality based on the
information-theoretic approaches has received significant research interest
recently. The key idea behind physical layer security is to utilize the
intrinsic randomness of the transmission channel to guarantee the security in
physical layer. The evolution towards 5G wireless communications poses new
challenges for physical layer security research. This paper provides a latest
survey of the physical layer security research on various promising 5G
technologies, including physical layer security coding, massive multiple-input
multiple-output, millimeter wave communications, heterogeneous networks,
non-orthogonal multiple access, full duplex technology, etc. Technical
challenges which remain unresolved at the time of writing are summarized and
the future trends of physical layer security in 5G and beyond are discussed.Comment: To appear in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication
On the Performance of MRC Receiver with Unknown Timing Mismatch-A Large Scale Analysis
There has been extensive research on large scale multi-user multiple-input
multiple-output (MU-MIMO) systems recently. Researchers have shown that there
are great opportunities in this area, however, there are many obstacles in the
way to achieve full potential of using large number of receive antennas. One of
the main issues, which will be investigated thoroughly in this paper, is timing
asynchrony among signals of different users. Most of the works in the
literature, assume that received signals are perfectly aligned which is not
practical. We show that, neglecting the asynchrony can significantly degrade
the performance of existing designs, particularly maximum ratio combining
(MRC). We quantify the uplink achievable rates obtained by MRC receiver with
perfect channel state information (CSI) and imperfect CSI while the system is
impaired by unknown time delays among received signals. We then use these
results to design new algorithms in order to alleviate the effects of timing
mismatch. We also analyze the performance of introduced receiver design, which
is called MRC-ZF, with perfect and imperfect CSI. For performing MRC-ZF, the
only required information is the distribution of timing mismatch which
circumvents the necessity of time delay acquisition or synchronization. To
verify our analytical results, we present extensive simulation results which
thoroughly investigate the performance of the traditional MRC receiver and the
introduced MRC-ZF receiver
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