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NOMA Assisted Joint Broadcast and Multicast Transmission in 5G Networks
In this paper, we employ the non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technique
to convey joint broadcast and multicast streams to a set of users. Thanks to
the spatial beamforming, different groups of users is able to receive different
streams in addition to the common broadcast information. With the proposed
scheme, the same time-frequency resources can be shared between different
streams, without requiring additional bandwidth. The transmitter implementation
is presented and two receiver classes are considered based on Successive
Interference Cancellation (SIC) and Joint Decoding (JD) approaches. In addition
to the performance assessment via simulation, a real hardware proof of concept
implementation of the proposed technique is performed in order to show the
practical viability of the proposed scheme