2 research outputs found
Non-orthogonal Multiple Access as an Enabler for Massive Connectivity for 5G and Beyond Networks
Two of the most challenging goals to be achieved in the fifth generation (5G)
and beyond communication are massive connectivity and higher capacity. The use
of traditional orthogonal multiple access techniques limits the number of users
that can be served using the available resources due to orthogonality
constraint. Moreover, the available resources may not be utilized effectively
by the alloted users thereby resulting in inefficiency and user unfairness.
This imposes a severe drawback in cases where the number of users to be served
are high, like in the 5G networks. Hence, introducing non-orthogonality to the
multiple access scheme is advocated as a supreme methodology to serve multiple
users simultaneously, thereby enhancing the connectivity. In scenarios with
massive number of users, non-orthogonal multiple access scheme increases the
number of active connections by superimposing the signal of multi-users on a
same resource block, thereby also utilizing the available resources
efficiently
A Survey of Rate-optimal Power Domain NOMA with Enabling Technologies of Future Wireless Networks
The ambitious high data-rate applications in the envisioned future B5G
networks require new solutions, including the advent of more advanced
architectures than the ones already used in 5G networks, and the coalition of
different communications schemes and technologies to enable these applications
requirements. Among the candidate schemes for future wireless networks are NOMA
schemes that allow serving more than one user in the same resource block by
multiplexing users in other domains than frequency or time. In this way, NOMA
schemes tend to offer several advantages over OMA schemes such as improved user
fairness and spectral efficiency, higher cell-edge throughput, massive
connectivity support, and low transmission latency. With these merits,
NOMA-enabled transmission schemes are being increasingly looked at as promising
multiple access schemes for future wireless networks. When the power domain is
used to multiplex the users, it is referred to as PD-NOMA. In this paper, we
survey the integration of PD-NOMA with the enabling communications schemes and
technologies that are expected to meet the various requirements of B5G
networks. In particular, this paper surveys the different rate optimization
scenarios studied in the literature when PD-NOMA is combined with one or more
of the candidate schemes and technologies for B5G networks including MISO,
MIMO, mMIMO, advanced antenna architectures, mmWave and THz, CoMP, cooperative
communications, cognitive radio, VLC, UAV and others. The considered system
models, the optimization methods utilized to maximize the achievable rates, and
the main lessons learnt on the optimization and the performance of these
NOMA-enabled schemes and technologies are discussed in detail along with the
future research directions for these combined schemes. Moreover, the role of
machine learning in optimizing these NOMA-enabled technologies is addressed.Comment: Accepted for publication in IEEE Surveys and Tutorials, July 202