Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access for Large-Scale 5G Networks: Interference Aware Design

Autor: Konpal Shaukat Ali, Hesham Elsawy, Anas Chaaban, Mohamed-Slim Alouini
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: IEEE Access, Vol 5, Pp 21204-21216 (2017)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2169-3536
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2753380
Popis: Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is promoted as a key component of 5G cellular networks. As the name implies, NOMA operation introduces intracell interference (i.e., interference arising within the cell) to the cellular operation. The intracell interference is managed by careful NOMA design (e.g., user clustering and resource allocation) along with successive interference cancellation. However, most of the proposed NOMA designs are agnostic to intercell interference (i.e., interference from outside the cell), which is a major performance limiting parameter in 5G networks. This paper sheds light on the drastic negativeimpact of intercell interference on the NOMA performance and advocates interference-aware NOMA design that jointly accounts for both intracell and intercell interference. To this end, a case study for fair NOMA operation is presented and intercell interference mitigation techniques for NOMA networks are discussed. This paper also investigates the potential of integrating NOMA with two important 5G transmission schemes, namely, full duplex and device-to-device communication. This is important since the ambitious performance defined by the third generation partnership project for 5G is foreseen to be realized via seamless integration of several new technologies and transmission techniques.
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