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A Tutorial on Nonorthogonal Multiple Access for 5G and Beyond
Today's wireless networks allocate radio resources to users based on the
orthogonal multiple access (OMA) principle. However, as the number of users
increases, OMA based approaches may not meet the stringent emerging
requirements including very high spectral efficiency, very low latency, and
massive device connectivity. Nonorthogonal multiple access (NOMA) principle
emerges as a solution to improve the spectral efficiency while allowing some
degree of multiple access interference at receivers. In this tutorial style
paper, we target providing a unified model for NOMA, including uplink and
downlink transmissions, along with the extensions tomultiple inputmultiple
output and cooperative communication scenarios. Through numerical examples, we
compare the performances of OMA and NOMA networks. Implementation aspects and
open issues are also detailed.Comment: 25 pages, 10 figure
Effective relaying mechanisms in future device to device communication : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in School of Food and Advanced Technology at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Listed in 2020 Dean's List of Exceptional ThesesFuture wireless networks embrace a large number of assorted network-enabled devices
such as mobile phones, sensor nodes, drones, smart gears, etc., with different applications
and purpose, but they all share one common characteristic which is the dependence
on strong network connectivity. Growing demand of internet-connected devices
and data applications is burdensome for the currently deployed cellular wireless networks.
For this reason, future networks are likely to embrace cutting-edge technological
advancements in network infrastructure such as, small cells, device-to-device communication,
non-orthogonal multiple access scheme (NOMA), multiple-input-multiple out,
etc., to increase spectral efficiency, improve network coverage, and reduce network latency.
Individual devices acquire network connectivity by accessing radio resources in
orthogonal manner which limits spectrum utilisation resulting in data congestion and
latency in dense cellular networks. NOMA is a prominent scheme in which multiple
users are paired together and access radio resources by slicing the power domain. While
several research works study power control mechanisms by base station to communicate
with NOMA users, it is equally important to maintain distinction between the
users in uplink communication. Furthermore, these users in a NOMA pair are able to
perform cooperative relaying where one device assists another device in a NOMA pair
to increase signal diversity. However, the benefits of using a NOMA pair in improving
network coverage is still overlooked. With a varierty of cellular connected devices, use
of NOMA is studied on devices with similar channel characteristics and the need of
adopting NOMA for aerial devices has not been investigated. Therefore, this research
establishes a novel mechanism to offer distinction in uplink communication for NOMA
pair, a relaying scheme to extend the coverage of a base station by utilising NOMA
pair and a ranking scheme for ground and aerial devices to access radio resources by
NOMA
Adaptive OFDM Index Modulation for Two-Hop Relay-Assisted Networks
In this paper, we propose an adaptive orthogonal frequency-division
multiplexing (OFDM) index modulation (IM) scheme for two-hop relay networks. In
contrast to the traditional OFDM IM scheme with a deterministic and fixed
mapping scheme, in this proposed adaptive OFDM IM scheme, the mapping schemes
between a bit stream and indices of active subcarriers for the first and second
hops are adaptively selected by a certain criterion. As a result, the active
subcarriers for the same bit stream in the first and second hops can be varied
in order to combat slow frequency-selective fading. In this way, the system
reliability can be enhanced. Additionally, considering the fact that a relay
device is normally a simple node, which may not always be able to perform
mapping scheme selection due to limited processing capability, we also propose
an alternative adaptive methodology in which the mapping scheme selection is
only performed at the source and the relay will simply utilize the selected
mapping scheme without changing it. The analyses of average outage probability,
network capacity and symbol error rate (SER) are given in closed form for
decode-and-forward (DF) relaying networks and are substantiated by numerical
results generated by Monte Carlo simulations.Comment: 30 page
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