학술논문

Quadrature NOMA: A Low-Complexity Multiple Access Technique With Coordinate Interleaving
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Wireless Communications Letters IEEE Wireless Commun. Lett. Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE. 9(9):1452-1456 Sep, 2020
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Signal Processing and Analysis
NOMA
Silicon carbide
Constellation diagram
Resource management
Downlink
Baseband
Multiplexing
coordinate interleaving
signal space diversity
Language
ISSN
2162-2337
2162-2345
Abstract
In this letter, we offer a low-complexity multiple access method based on coordinate interleaving coined as quadrature non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA). It is shown that by properly utilizing two quadrature carriers, both error performance enhancement and reduction in the number of successive interference cancellation (SIC) operations can be attained as compared to the standard power-domain NOMA approach. Specifically, in a $K$ -user network with single-antenna nodes, the reduction in the number of SIC operations is more than 50% as compared to the original NOMA scheme. When $K=2$ , the power gain obtained by the inspected technique can be as large as 2.5 dB without resorting to any SIC process at all. Further, as compared to the original NOMA idea, the considered approach requires fewer number of SIC stability conditions on power allocation and functions for any power allocation strategy (without an error floor) when $K=2$ . Some similar gains are also applicable for $K>2$ . The decrease in the number of SIC operations manifests itself by boosting the immunity of the system against possible failures during the SIC process.